Primary Education
The program for primary school children puts the accent on stimulating aesthetic experiences different from the traditional visit to the Museum, in which the viewer usually remains static and has an exclusively visual relationship with the work of art. To achieve this, the two projects designed for this age group focus on the simultaneous activation of various senses, incorporating forms of artistic expression and appreciation that are related to sound, movement and the exploration of new parts of the Museum.
Activities
If it were a movement...
Intended for: children in the first and second years of primary school Days: every Wednesday from October 13, 2011 to June 6, 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon Information: tel. 91 774 10 00, ext. 2031 Registration: starting Thursday September 8, at 9 a.m. Registration method: complete and send in the form. Capacity: maximum of 25 children per session
This activity is free of charge
Registration is closed, the course is currently full
This educational program seeks to creatively stimulate the body's expressive capacities through interaction with selected works. During the visit we will evoke what the works of art would be if they were movements, what they would transmit to us, how we would relate to them. The language of dance thus become a vehicle for experiencing the Museum's collection in a new way, through the works of A. Gottlieb, A. Saura, Equipo 57, L. Fontana and J. Miró.
This activity brings an awareness of the configuration and content of the works through the corporality of the spectator, attempting to generate in the children a change in attitude towards art and towards museums.
Design: Patricia Ruz Performers: Patricia Ruz, Tania Arias, Pablo Martín Jones and Sergey Saprychev
Preparatory session for teachers: October 5, 6:30 p.m.
Ecos
Intended for: children in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of primary school Days: every Monday and Friday, from 17 October 2011 to 8 June 2012 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Information: tel. 91 774 10 00, ext. 2031 Registration: starting Thursday 8 September at 9 a.m. Registration method: complete and send in the form. Capacity: maximum of 25 students per session
This activity is free of charge
Registration is closed, the course is currently full
Echoes proposes a new experience based on active listening and on the making of sounds as a way of getting to know both the Museum and its Collection. Through this program, students will experiment with sound as a vehicle of expression, with different works of art as the point of departure. They will also analyse the museum setting in relation to the sounds that define it.
To achieve this, during the visit various dynamics will be used to explore the contrast between sound and silence, questioning the role of the museum and of visitors as generators of certain sounds and, at the same time, "silencers" of others. The experience in the exhibition halls is complemented by an activity in which the children themselves become creators and performers of a piece of collective sound art.
Design: Cristina Gutiérrez Andérez and José Luis Espejo Educators: Esther Moñivas, Ana Vaquero and Cristina Sánchez-Chiquito
Preparatory session for teachers: 28 September, 6:30 p.m.
Guided visits
Intended for: children in any year of primary school Days: Every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from October 2011 to June 2012 Time: sessions at 10:15, 11:15 (maximum capacity 25) and 5 p.m. Registration: starting Tuesday 6 September 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Registration method: follow the instructions that appear when you click "Registration" under the itinerary selected (the form will be available starting 6 September) Capacity: maximum of 50 students per school/per day
This activity is free of charge
The program of guided visits offers primary schools the opportunity to get to know the Museum's collection with the help of a cultural volunteer. When guiding groups of primary-school aged children, the volunteers give preference to a methodology that stimulates the participation of the students. They focus the visit on a carefully selected group of works suitable for this age group and the language they use is adapted to the different age ranges.
For over sixteen years, cultural volunteers have been leading guided visits as just that: volunteers. Their experience with school groups and the ongoing training they receive at the Museum enable learning about contemporary culture to become an intergenerational experience. This volunteer program is an initiative of the Confederation of Senior Education Associations (Confederación de Aulas de la Tercera Edad), with which the Museum has been collaborating since its creation.
Suggested itineraries
Supplementary didactic material with which to prepare the visit is available upon request.
The ways of seeing of the avant-garde
Recommended for children in the first and second years of primary school
In the early years of the 20th century a search began for new languages, in an attempt to respond to the tensions and contradictions of the modern world. This process gave rise to numerous ways of representing or reacting to reality, which together would generate a decisive tendency towards rupture in subsequent artistic developments.
This itinerary illustrates the emergence of the avant-garde movements through the work of some of the most well-known artists at the time, both in Spain and abroad. The selected works depict the particular manner in which each of these artists conceived of his or her own search for modernity.
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Bodies and identities
Recommended for children in 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years of primary school
The transition to the 20th century brought an array of political, economic and technological changes, with very far-reaching effects. These changes had repercussions not only on society in general but also directly on the art world.
Among the numerous aesthetic questions that underwent radical alterations in this period is how the identity of the subject should be expressed. The visual evolution of this issue is a clear manifestation of the interests that motivated avant-garde artists during the first four decades of the 20th century. This itinerary explores this conceptual and formal investigation by looking at some of the Collection's most representative works.
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