Family Picnic with Gwidon, the Warsaw Forest Elephant

About the event

On September 28, the IV Family Picnic with Gwidon – the Warsaw forest elephant – will take place at the PAN Museum of the Earth in Warsaw. 🎉 We have prepared fascinating lectures and booths full of attractions related to geology and paleontology. For the youngest, there are games, activities, and prizes! FREE ENTRY – EVERYONE IS WELCOME Activities: - Cave paintings using colorful rocks and minerals - Fossil and mineral hunting (10:00 – until supplies last) - Temporary exhibition "The Drelów Meteorite – the most Polish rock from space" (Skytinel / Polish Meteorite Society) - Rocks from space (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw) - Face painting - In the amber forest - Plants of the mammoth steppe - Museum of Evolution of the Institute of Paleobiology PAN - Geological Museum PIG-PIB - Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw - Evolutionary Biology Science Club - State Forests - PAN Conference and Retreat Center in Jabłonna - Picnic quiz - Temporary exhibition "Something is in the air" (Pniewski Villa, level 1) - Temporary exhibition "Facing the Stone 2" (Pniewski Villa, level 0) - The dice are cast - Gold rush - Gwidon stamps 📚 Lectures (Pniewski Villa, level -2): - 10:45 – Mammoth hunters in prehistoric Europe, Dr. Michał Czernielewski (PAN Museum of the Earth in Warsaw) - 11:30 – Drelów – from bolide to meteorite, Mateusz Żmija (Skytinel, Polish Meteorite Society) - 12:15 – Elephants in Warsaw? Could it be?, Dr. Gwidon Jakubowski (PAN Museum of the Earth in Warsaw) - 13:00 – When rainforests last grew in Poland. The lost world of the Middle Miocene, Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Stefaniak (Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Wrocław) - 13:45 – Dinosaurs from the Gobi Desert, Dr. Gwidon Jakubowski (PAN Museum of the Earth in Warsaw) - 14:30 – "Stone Man" – paleopathology, a brief history of ailments from centuries ago, Dr. Dariusz Nowakowski (Faculty of Biology and Animal Science, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences)