At MAMUZ Schloss Asparn/Zaya, the fire of ancient craftsmanship is revived. You will need curiosity and courage, as well as some manual skills, to immerse yourself in a life that you could have led around 40,000 years ago. Make tools, learn about nature's miracle cures or go all out and practise how to survive in unspoilt nature. All this under expert guidance and in small groups.

Course selection

• Medieval medicine chest
  Learn about important medicinal herbs and make ointments and tinctures.
  7 hours / 5-12 people
• Boiling soap
  Make fragrant soaps from various raw materials.
  3.5 hours / 3-10 people
• Obsidian knife
  Learn printing techniques for making tools from obsidian and stone.
  8 hours / 3-10 people
• Forging knives
  Learn the basics of forging, different types of knives and historical backgrounds.
  8 hours / 4-6 people
• Bronze casting
  Making your own mould into which the molten bronze is poured.
  8 hours / 4-6 people
• Forging arrowheads
  The basics of forging, different types of arrowheads and historical backgrounds are taught.
  8 hours / 4-6 persons
• Axe forging
  Each participant forges their own hatchet based on a historical model.
  8 hours / 3-4 persons
• Making wire jewellery
  After an introduction to fine forging techniques and the historical background, jewellery items such as finger rings, pendants or simple brooches are forged from non-ferrous metal wire.
  8 hours / 4-6 people
• Carving bones and antlers
  Knowledge and practical skills in bone and antler carving are taught. An object is then carved according to an archaeological model.
  8 hours / 4-6 people
• Building a wooden chest
  Each participant makes a wooden chest based on Iron Age or early historical models and familiarises themselves with the most important tools and working techniques of these eras.
  8 hours / 4-6 people
• Cooking like in prehistoric times
  Using our ancestors' cooking skills, you will cook and taste a dish from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
  8 hours / 4-10 people
• Survival
  What are the most important aspects of survival? How can I prepare myself, when is a survival situation a survival situation? Including making a fire, meteorology, orientation, tools made from natural materials and much more.
  To take along: Knife with a fixed blade.
  Option 1: 3 hours / 5-25 people
  Option 2: 6 hours / 5-25 people

For questions and bookings, please contact us on 02572/20719-490 or buchung@mamuz.at