Schools
For primary school pupils, the museum has the project 'Museum Treasures' with interesting, instructive viewing and doing assignments. For secondary school pupils, there is an adapted version of the lecture 'Help, the doctor tells', combined with a matching assignment on primary care.
What can you do there?
Primary school pupils are welcomed by a museum staff member. He/she gives an introduction about the work of the village doctor in former times. The pupils are told something about bloodletting and piss-watching.
Some old medical instruments such as the coin catcher and the bones catcher are shown from a doctor's bag.
In groups, pupils go into the museum to carry out different tasks. In the pharmacy, for example, they have to fold powders, in nursing they learn how to splint an arm and in physiotherapy they measure their heart rate before and after an exercise.
At the end of the visit to Museum de Dorpsdokter , a member of staff tells the story of Piet Stams. We won't give too much away about that here, of course, but it will be exciting.
