Fourth pavilion
History you can play
Kościuszko was an engineer — he learned by building. This pavilion works the same way: instead of reading about the fourteen places of his life, you can walk them, piece them back together and restore them with your own hands. For children, parents and teachers.
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Activity I · beta
The Little Engineer of Liberty
An expedition through the fourteen places of Kościuszko’s life — from Mereczowszczyzna to Solothurn — on a map that travels with you. Two levels: “With Kos” for ages 6–9 (read-aloud narration, picture tasks) and “Explorer” for ages 10+ (dates, facts from the chapters, points, the Keeper of Memory exam). Badges, a diploma, and for teachers and parents: a panel with results, a student code and a printable worksheet.
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Activity II · new
Detective on Matejko’s painting
Nine metres of canvas — “Kościuszko at Racławice” — and twenty-eight clues. You get a description, zoom into the painting and point to the spot; every find opens a card: who it is, how we know, and what the painter added. Three modes: an investigation with clues, close-up hunting for younger players, the full investigation.
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Activity III · daily
Question of the Day
One question about Kościuszko a day, four answers, an explanation with a link to the chapter. Come back tomorrow to extend your streak. You can share the question card with friends before they learn the answer.
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Activity IV · in preparation
Quizzes
Questions about Kościuszko and his era at three levels of difficulty — for younger players, for older ones, and for those who think they know everything. Every answer leads to an exhibit in the Repository, so even a mistake teaches something.
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Activity V · new
Digital conservator
A conservation workshop in your browser. You lift three layers off the painting in the order a real studio would: dust and soot with a soft brush, the yellowed varnish with a solvent swab, and finally the overpaint left by old repairs — with a scalpel. Then you fill the paint losses. Three canvases and six details — the same as in the Jigsaw puzzles. A conservator's diploma at the end.
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Activity VI · new
Jigsaw puzzles
Classic jigsaw puzzles from three canvases: Matejko’s “Kościuszko at Racławice” and Trumbull’s “Surrender of General Burgoyne” and “Declaration of Independence” — whole paintings or close-up details, from six to forty-eight pieces. On the whole canvases, every piece you place reveals the figure on it. Piece rotation can be switched off — for younger players and for tablets.
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For the teacher · 45 minutes
Lesson plan: Kościuszko and the scythemen
A ready-made history lesson for grades 4–6 (and Polish Saturday schools) with the game, Matejko’s painting and a worksheet with answer key — in pairs on tablets, with a projector, or with no devices at all. Prints with one click; the homework is checked with the student code from the game.
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We are building further components of the Education pavilion — but launching them requires digital copies of the monuments: without digitized objects there is nothing to restore or piece together. So we are traveling to the United States Military Academy at West Point — the fortress Kościuszko himself once designed — to scan in 3D and photograph in high resolution every surviving place and memento of the Naczelnik. These scans are what the quizzes and the activities to come will be built from. Would you like to support the expedition or become its patron? Write to us: biuro@wirtualnedziedzictwo.pl.