Events

Gold washing game

As real searchers, the visitors of the Bologna Mineral Show can participate to the traditional gold washing game, using a sieve and their competitive spirit in order to win some particles of the precious metal. Who finds something can bring it home. Every visitor is authorized, better: invited to participate to the gold washing game, and will be official owner of the gold particles he manages to find with his sieve. Of course, it will not be a big economical deal, but it will be nonetheless funny and gratifying.

Live the prehistory at the Bologna Mineral Show

The Bologna Mineral Show becomes magic with the collaboration of Alfio, Ilaria and Marco Tomaselli. Thanks to their performances, the visitors will live an ideal trip through the most ancient part of our history. Through simple notions, they will go along the principal stages of the human evolution. Through the use of skins, stone, wood and bone grown-up people and children will have the possibility to duplicate the tools of our ancestors. Such experiments will allow the guests to understand the effort of the primitive man in the struggle for the survival, in its impact with the environment and in its demands to transform such habitat. There will be then spectacular moments as the lighting of the fire and the techniques of prehistoric painting. An unique occasion to live, as catapulted to the dawns of the humanity by a special time-machine, the enterprises of our ancestors and the first footsteps of our civilization. www.archeologiasperimentale.it

The wheel of solidarity

To sustain AVIS, associazione volontari italiani sangue, the organization of the Bologna Mineral Show has invented the nice game "The wheel of solidarity", involving and colored attraction that will impassion all the visitors of the demonstration. With a small offer the players will be able in fact to make turn the wheel, divided into sectors, and go home with one of the so many prizes, collection stones kindly given by the patron of the demonstration, Maurizio Varoli. The victory is insured, but the greatest satisfaction will be that to contribute, with a small but concrete gesture, having a good time, and sustaining the historical association that operates on the italian territory for the harvest of blood. www.avis.it