Topological phases are a game changing paradigm in characterizing ground states of quantum many-body systems, and describe quantum phases with remarkable properties. While a few such topological phases appear in condensed matter systems, a high focus is on the implementation and study of such quantum many-body ground states within artificial matter.  In this tutorial, I will provide an introduction into symmetry protected topological phases, and report on the experimental realization of a symmetry protected topological phase for hard-core bosons assembled in a one-dimensional lattice structure. The setup is based on atoms trapped in an array of optical tweezers and excited into Rydberg levels, where the dipolar exchange interaction provides an effective hopping.