The Education Department at Mart is not dedicated only to children and pupils at school, but also to adults, the young and families interested in trying new ways of learning. Our activities for the adult public aim to ensure Mart becomes a place to visit regularly, one in which to learn, refresh one’s knowledge and invest time with one’s family in a creative manner. The initiatives include guided visits to exhibitions and the architecture, special itineraries, workshops for adults and families.

The didactic activities offered by Mart since 1984 for children (from infant school to second-level secondary schools) place modern and contemporary art at the centre of their operations. The workshops become excit-ing opportunities for stimulus, knowledge and reflection on the languages and forms of art, introducing vari-ous ways of reading the works and suggesting strategies and models to be adopted by the teachers. They help the development of the personality, and provide possibilities for the start of cognitive, formative, educa-tional and multidisciplinary processes. The Schools Area of Mart’s Education Department offers itself as an instrument at the service of teachers and children for activities and experiences able to develop artistic, so-cial and cross-discipline skills to arrive at an understanding of significant forms in our culture.

Didactic workshops for schools: €2.00 per pupil (per session)
Guided tours of exhibitions: €40 per group (+€1.00 per pupil)
Accompanying teachers: free of charge
Entry to the museum for teachers’ own activities: €1.00 per pupil

In line with changes in school curricula, Mart offers schools the possibility of multi-disciplinary and cross-discipline learning. Every year, Mart offers refresher courses for teachers of every order and level. The pro-cedures vary according to the course. In general, face-to-face lessons, laboratory activities in which instruments and strategies for activities to be held independently are discusses, together with group sessions geared to a constructive comparison. Since 2005, the museum also offers teachers, university students and post-university students a training course in museum education activities in the field of modern and contemporary art and the educational activities of Mart itself.

Mart’s guided tours are offered visitors and first and second-level secondary school pupils. The levels of study are geared to the type of public. Through dialogue and the active participation of the participants, the guided visits highlight the common threads within the exhibition, providing keys to understanding the con-tents of an exhibition through the most significant works, helping to decode forms and languages of art. The Archives and Library of the museum also offer an itinerary to explore the materials preserved in the archives and library: the documentation of artists and architects, their personal libraries, holdings of books.

The museum can provide an opportunity for growth, a workshop for learning, an educational setting, a place in which form links, a location in which to meet people and works in an interdisciplinary dimension seen against the single backdrop of knowledge through the variety of skills applied.