Art - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

In the Summer Holidays, 1,160 children took part in the “Great Adventure – A Trip to Greece”,
an activity undertaken in the form of six modules, each lasting four days.
“Special Days”
These are days that are celebrated in a special fashion:
› Children’s Day – The five activities undertaken were adapted to the specific requirements
of the 153 children taking part.
› On the day when the Descobrir programme was launched, the Educational Services held seven
guided tours and two tours/workshops involving 150 visitors. Most of the 665 visitors were welcomed
individually in a reception area specially assembled for this purpose, where they were given the
opportunity to learn about the dynamics of this new programme organised by the Foundation.
Programmes designed to increase awareness of the Museum’s collections and to provide guidance for studies
› A training scheme was organised on a monthly basis for guides, translators and interpreters,
as well as for students from the undergraduate courses in Tourism and Art History. 443 people
enrolled for the scheme, which consisted of 10 modules of four mornings each.
› Eighteen students from Portuguese and foreign universities received individual training about
educational services in general and about the Museum’s Educational Services in particular,
as this was the area in which they were interested in presenting specific studies.
Special projects
The Educational Services continued with the projects that they have been developing, dedicating
themselves above all to those that involve neighbourhoods with special needs, such as Cova da Moura
and the Bairro da Boavista. These projects, which have quite different features depending
on each neighbourhood, are initiated either by the schools or by cultural centres, with the aim
of progressively involving the whole of the local population.
Amongst other activities, the “Our Neighbourhood” project was implemented with a group
of 25 children and 10 monitors from catl (Leisure Time Activities Centre) of the “Moinho da Juventude”
Association, in Cova da Moura. This programme, which lasted for eight months, began with training
activities for trainers, who would later be the ones to accompany the children in their multiple work
sessions with the team from the Educational Services, both at the Association and at the Museum.
The aim of the project was to help the children, mostly originating from Cape Verde, to discover
other cultures and other realities, encouraging them to use their critical expression and thought
processes. The outcome was the building of a model of the neighbourhood in the way that they saw
it, conceived of it or would like it to be, which became the centrepiece of the exhibition held by
the Educational Services at the Moinho da Juventude Association and opened during the festivities
of Kola San Djon. The children involved in the project and their trainers acted as guides for the
roughly 400 children from the neighbourhood of Cova da Moura and their relatives.
This group of activities was planned and organised by the curator Deolinda Cerqueira.
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