INTRODUCTION students of 6. i 8. grade that participate in Erasmus + group visited etnograpic museum of Čakovec city, together accompanied by the project coordinator Ljerka Toplek and teacher Marta Novak Bratović.

Museum is divided into four seasons and between them there is a thematic room. Introductory part of the museum

SPRING Easter On the Holy Saturday the woman decorated eggs. These egs woman carried to church on sanctification together with oder foods( ham, bread, horseradisch, cake, pretzel).

Fašnjek (Fašnik) It was usually filled with straw and dressed into old clothes and on the head it was wearing schary mask. The tradicional event was based on burning „Fašnik” to mark a new beginning in the coming year. Ftičeki se ženiju It was belived that on Valentine’s Day birds begin to „ženiti” (marry) whitch is another sign of the coming spring.

DJECA Children are blessing in the house, happines and joy, but also a concern and obligation. Because of the high mortality, the child had to be baptized as soon as possible, and you coudn’ t look at newborns eyes so mother’s used to cover their children over the head. Cribs, baby walkers and other aids were made of wood and they formed an intergal part of a child’ s life in the village.

Children wore same clothes as adults only in smaller format. In the school they carried a little blackboard that served as today’ s notebook, there they guided their notes, but they had a lot more to remember because when they didn’t have enough place on the board they had to delete everything they had written usually they calculated using an abacus.

SUMMER Proštenje (Feast) Square around the church was filled with stalls containing honey products, gingerbread hearts, cold gvirc (drink made of honey) and mead.

WEDDING When the bride was leaving her hative home with her, in these coffins she carried all her stuff, because after she left she was no longer allowed to go back into that house. When she saw the bridegroom, the bride climbes the ladder, how many rungs she climbes before he gets into the house, so many years she must not have children.

JESEN Tools for tillage The ground was usually processed manually using sickles, rackes, picks and other tools. Machine which served for chrushing grapes and makeing bridge (grape juice), then the wine- alcoholic drink with specific aroma and flavor is made.

SMRT It’s shows us the room in which was wached three days over a dead body. It’s explained that all the mirors in the house were covored so the sove wouldn’t returnt and torture. All the rooms should be without decorations, so everything could recalls on sadness.

ZIMA In the winter, the most job were doing inside, because it was cold outside. One of the most important job was spinning preporation for weaving on the loom. The most of the materials prepered woman in summer refining stalks of flakx and cannabis while men were weaving.

We learned that Međimurje has a lot of intangible cultural inheritance, which we should be proud of. From this visit we learned a lot and we belive that the younger generations should be more informed about the beauty of folk culture because from that we get the impression from were we cam and from where we pull our roots.