Schools and groups
Palazzo Buonaccorsi
Schools
The aim of Macerata Musei is to support schools through two different ways of cultural heritage education, flexible to adjust to the needs of children and their teachers:
- in-person proposals at museums and various venues throughout the city
- DaD (Distance Learning) modules
Info and booking
For the classes taking part in the educational activities offered by Sistema Museo, admission to the museums is free of charge.
A general guided tour service is available against payment of a membership fee in addition to a possible museum entrance ticket:
Free tickets for children up to 13 years of age and the accompanying teachers,
Special concession for schools €3 (reserved for schoolchildren from junior and upper secondary schools of the municipality of Macerata)
Prices of Guided tours for Schools
- Guided tour of Carriage Museum (duration 1 hour | price €60)
- Guided tour of the Gallery of Ancient Art (duration 1 hour | price €60)
- Guided tour of the masterpieces of the Civic Museums at Palazzo Buonaccorsi – Carriage Museum, Gallery of Ancient Art and Gallery of Modern Art (duration 1.5 hours | price €80)
- Guided tour of Temporary exhibitions (duration 1 hour | price €60)
- Guided tour of the Sferisterio Arena (duration 1 hour | price €60)
- Guided tour of the Civic Tower (duration 45 min | price €50)
- Guided tour Sferisterio Arena + Civic Museums at Palazzo Buonaccorsi (duration 2 hours | price €100)
- Complete Guided Tour – Masterpieces of the Civic Museums at Palazzo Buonaccorsi + Sferisterio Arena + Civic Tower – (duration 2.5 hours | price €120)
- Language supplement (€30)
- Extra charge for special opening (€30/hour subject to check for availability)
Educational workshops
ART, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD!
Blue as a melody, sweet as ice cream, cold as marble… Let’s explore the museum with the five senses
Kindergarten and first grade of primary school
Playful activity
Duration 1h
€80 per class group
Art is a world in which we can immerse ourselves and unleash our imagination using all our senses! This first experience at a museum brings us closer to the works and teaches us that they can speak to us in the language of creativity and play with our sensations and feelings: we just have to learn how to question them.
A special travelling companion will guide us through the rooms with games and activities: the Art Trolley.
LET’S PORTRAIT
The portrait between gestures and expressions: what do you see outside? What’s on the inside?
Second grade of primary school Visit + workshop
Duration 1.5h
€100 per class group
How many beautifully posed faces emerge from the frames of the works! Women, men, children, each with their smiling or pensive face, an elegant dress or favourite object, striking a gestural or impassive pose… What does a portrait reveal about a person’s character and life? Let’s look at the facial features and expressions. Let’s analyse the gestures, the clothing, the background and everything that is represented in a portrait—which tells us much more about the subject depicted than what we could ever think. What about us? How would we like to be represented? In the workshop, we play at creating our own portrait that depicts what is seen and what is invisible to the eyes.
ENGLISH AT THE MUSEUM
Learning new words in English through reading artwork
Second grade of primary school Experiential visit Duration 1h
€80 per class group
Let’s stroll through the halls of the piano nobile (main floor) and stop in front of the marked works: playing among words and images, we can enrich our English vocabulary and learn (or brush up!) the many terms referring to the world of colour and facial elements through the expressions we are suggested in the works of art: are you happy to be here?
PORTRAIT & SELF-PORTRAIT
The art of storytelling
Junior and upper secondary school Visit + workshop
Duration 2h
€100 per class group
A journey through the pictorial genre of portraits and self-portraits that provokes reflection on the representation of oneself or other people, from the exhibits in the museum to modern-day selfies. Let’s investigate together the main figurative elements that stage a person’s identity: the physiognomic rendering, the psychological expression, the use of chiaroscuro, the framing, the pose, the background, the clothing, and the complementary objects. But the story of us can also be told unconventionally, through the many languages of art: we thus create our inner portrait, which is capable of expressing who we are only to those who know how to look beyond appearances.
MAKING ROOM FOR THE LANDSCAPE
The evolution of art from classical views to contemporary abstractionism
Junior and upper secondary school Experiential visit
Duration 1.5h
€80 per class group
From the end of the 17th century, according to the gradual establishment of genre painting, nature takes over the work of art. The proportions are reversed: the landscape, from an accessory or secondary element, becomes the protagonist. Faithful to reality or conceived from an ideal perspective, the natural or urban environment predominates the art scene, and any characters present are often depicted in the smallest detail. Our journey starts with the Collections of Ancient Art up to those of Modern Art, concluding in front of the work of Emilio Vedova: from the concrete to the abstract, from the view to the mythological landscape up to its transfigured image, we examine the evolution of art through exercises and activities carried out directly in front of the works.
Carriage Museum
A FAIRYTALE CARRIAGE
Tales of coachmen, travellers and princesses…
Kindergarten and first grade of primary school Visit + workshop
Duration 1h
€100 per class group
Following the traces of the most beloved fairy tales and animated films, through the use of a tablet, we discover how people travelled and lived in the time of our grandparents—no, long, long before them! Perhaps one of Cinderella’s little mice will emerge from a carriage? Anything is possible at the museum through imagination! In the workshop, we create our own colourful and unique fantasy carriage that we can then take back to the classroom, where we can continue the activity by creating a new complete fairy tale to be invented.
ALL ABOARD, THE JOURNEY BEGINS
Second grade of primary school Experiential visit Duration 1h
€80 per class group
All aboard, are you ready to set out on a journey? Let’s discover the means and habits of travelling in the past by observing the enchanting carriages on display and their transformations: what’s inside that luggage? What was needed to get on the move? What about today? A saddlebag full of papers and objects will introduce us to the main characteristics of carriage travel and the habits of travellers in an entertaining comparison between the present and the past.
TRAVELING
Junior and upper secondary school Thematic route
Duration 1.5h
€70 per class group
“I tell you about the slowness of the postal carriages that exhausts the passengers. It is possible to stop at a station for hours. The postal guides recommend carrying a dagger and attaching bells to the luggage so that when they stop chiming, you know that something has happened…’, says the brigand Bellente in the 19th century. Strolling among the evocative exhibits and supported by readings and images, we retrace the evolution of travelling from the 18th to the 19th century. How have the 4 purposes and conditions of travelling changed today compared to yesterday? What differences are there between the real travel experience and the virtual one we can now have via the web? Let’s also think it over through a team game on a type of travel still relevant today: travelling for study and training opportunities, which young people undertook as the Gran Tour as early as the 18th century.
Ancient art
Kindergarten and first grade of primary school Visit + workshop
Duration 1h
€100 per class group
MR. TIME AND HIS SEASONS
What time is it? Is it before or after? We learn to mark time and the passing of the hours through the works of art
We begin our adventure on the piano nobile (main floor) of Palazzo Buonaccorsi in front of the canvas depicting a strange figure, old and bearded… Who is he? We discover that this mysterious character is the personification of Time! Time passes, and the hours flow, but is it night or day now? We walk through the great halls of the palace – from the Aeneid to the Alcove – and, through games, readings, and lots of imagination, we discover the story of our day together with special girlfriends: the works of art! Finally, we build our own Time Compass (for kindergarten) or the original Art Clock (for primary school).
MYTH HUNTING!
Let’s meet the protagonists of the Aeneid Gallery and create our own myth with the stop motion technique
Second grade of primary school Visit + workshop | Duration 3h
€200 per class group
A mysterious path leads us to the Aeneid Room, which is completely in the dark. There, we use a torch to illuminate some of the characters painted on its majestic ceiling, revealing them and making them emerge from the darkness. We observe their poses and distinguishing elements; in the workshop, we retrace their stories by creating a real short film using the claymation technique (plasticine animation), one of the fundamental techniques of stop motion, in which the characters will be photographed in sequential shots within a shooting set.
Modern Art
LOOKING DOWNWARDS
We learn to look at the world from the skies of Aerial painting with the art of Futurism
PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
EXPERIENTIAL VISIT
AGE 6-13
DURATION 1.5h
COST €100 per class group
Let’s throw ourselves into reckless pirouettes in the sky through futurist painting, or rather aerial painting, which celebrates the myth of speed and modernity through poetic and decomposed visions of the landscape seen from above while flying. We thus discover this original artistic movement, learning to look at the works with our ears too! In the workshop, we create a futurist-style Macerata: we add colours, curves, lines and swirls, and a new metropolis between present and future will appear! We then work on our own moving aerial painting on which we make a small aeroplane fly.
FUTURISM
History of the movement that wanted to change the world and has changed the art
Junior and upper Secondary school Experiential visit
Duration 1.5h
€80 per class group
‘We want to destroy museums, libraries, academies of all kinds’, said Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the 1909 Manifesto of Futurism. An artistic movement born with the idea of destroying the past in the name of modernity: ‘We affirm that the magnificence of the world has been enriched with a new beauty: the beauty of speed’. A group of young artists who celebrated war as an element of rupture and innovation and then came up against war’s cruelty, death, and abomination, leading them to take back their creed: “We want to glorify war – the world’s only hygiene”. Through the works on display, we discover the reading of excerpts from the Manifesto, images and films displayed on tablets. This important movement involved not only every field of art (painting, sculpture, architecture) but also life (customs, food, society). Finally, we create our own Manifesto!
Villa Ficana Ecomuseum
The Earth Houses of Villa Ficana Ecomuseum offers different playful and educational activities to better understand and know the territory, local traditions, and earthen architecture.
WALKING THROUGH STORIES
Educational project for kindergarten, primary and secondary schools curated by the Villa Ficana Ecomuseum
Dramatised animations are a different way of introducing children and young people to the area in which they live and its history. The recipe is simple: places full of history and art, a good dose of theatre and readings, entertaining characters, and an audience of children!
The proposed educational visits are intended to give the child an experience in a world that has now been forgotten, using the appropriate language of the age group involved and the right methods for bringing the child closer to the topics addressed.
ANIMATED READINGS – kindergarten, first and second grade of primary school
- CREATIVE HANDS – STORIES FROM A TIME WHEN HANDS USED TO BUILD THINGS (duration 1 h)
- EDIBLE SEASONS – STORIES FROM THE VEGETABLE GARDEN, THE FARMYARD, AND THE TABLE (duration 1 h)
- VILLA FICANA SHARES ITS STORY TO CHILDREN – STORIES FOR CHILDREN (duration 1 h)
DRAMATISED GUIDED TOURS – primary school, junior secondary school
- VILLA FICANA – CASANOLANTI AND LAUNDRESSES (duration 1 h)
- VILLA LAURI – STORIES OF TREES, PLANTS AND COUNTS AND COUNTESSES (duration 1 h)
ECOMUSEUM STORIES INSPIRED BY OBJECTS AND EVERYDAY REAL LIFE
- THE DAILY LIFE OF THE CHILD – kindergarten, primary school, junior secondary school (duration 1 h)
How did the children of yesteryear live? An itinerary designed to stimulate a comparison between the habits of children living nowadays and the everyday life of children in the past. Various topics will be explored: the home, the family, clothing, food, play, work, and school.
- REMEDIES AND CURES OF THE PAST – second grade of primary school (duration 1 h)
What were the most common diseases in the past? What were the possible remedies? A journey of discovery into the medicine of the past when there were no coloured capsules or tasty syrups but, with simple herbs, skilful gestures and beliefs handed down orally, ailments of the body and spirit could be cured.
INFORMATION
- Activities require a contribution of 2 euros per participant.
- Educational activities can be carried out on all weekdays (Monday to Friday) at the times that are agreed with the Ecomuseum.
- Contact the address museovillaficana@gmail.com for further information and bookings.
HUNTING FOR THE TREASURES OF VILLA FICANA
Primary School and Junior and Upper Secondary School
Duration 2 h
Contribution 5€ per child
Guided tour of the 19th-century hamlet followed by a treasure hunt: armed with a map, the participants will go and search the historical sites and objects throughout the House Museum, discovering the hamlet of Villa Ficana and its treasures through a novel way of learning the stories it hides.
TERRA CRUDA LAB (UNFIRED CLAY)
Kindergarten, Primary School, Junior and Upper Secondary School.
Duration 2 h
Contribution 5€ per child
This activity is part of a broader programme of spreading and enhancement of the local TERRA CRUDA resource, historically present in the Marche region, made up of values that can represent a valuable cultural enrichment for pupils, such as
- Knowledge of the area surrounding Macerata, particularly of Villa Ficana and its raw earth and unfired clay constructions.
- Knowledge through observation and direct manipulation of materials (earth, gravel, sand, natural colours, straw, etc.).
- Refinement of manual skills.
- Stimulating creativity both during the design phase and in the practical-creative phase.