New video instructions for running the workshops are online on the website of the Virtual Art and Culture project and on our YouTube channel.

In the video “The Jefferson Cipher” viewers can learn about the cylindrical encryption system devised by the American statesman Thomas Jefferson. With a bit of paper, scissors, glue and some yoghurt cups, you too can have your own handy encryption device!

The eavesdropping glass belongs to the “Sound” cycle and explains how a simple drinking glass can be used to amplify sound and find out what is going on in the room next door.

The tram is a means of transport that the residents of Osijek and Zagreb can see on the streets of their cities every day – and those who cannot can learn in this video how to make their own tram out of paper.

Who exactly are the Freemasons? This secret society influenced various spheres of world society, and its representatives were public figures active in art, architecture, science and more. One of the things its members bequeathed to us is the Masonic cipher, whose traces we see today in the game of noughts and crosses and in various works of architecture. Learn what the Masonic cipher is and how to use it!

An ordinary plastic bottle can end up as a model submarine instead of in the recycling bin. In this workshop, viewers will learn how to use a bottle, a straw, some adhesive tape and a small metal object to build a submarine that behaves just like the ones sailing the world’s oceans.

A Makey Makey kit, a computer or tablet and a pile of fruit are all you need to build a “fruit” piano – and along the way you can learn a thing or two about conductivity and why fruit conducts electricity.

With a bit of paper, a pen and a pair of scissors you can make your own improvised encryption kit. The kit is easy to carry and easy to make, and unauthorised persons cannot simply break the encrypted messages they intercept, even if they have the whole system in their hands.

We hope that the participants in our programmes and the general public will find these video workshops interesting and instructive, and that they will also make it possible to carry out on your own all the experiments we did as part of the Virtual Art and Culture project.

Besides the videos published so far, we also intend to publish video instructions for the Enigma cipher machine workshop – and after that, two theatre performances are coming up!