EDUCATION
One of the primary objectives of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art is the cultivation of aesthetic awareness through learning about and enjoying art. Since the 1980s the MMCA has been a pioneer in the field of designing and implementing educational programmes.
The works in the Museum’s collection provide a picture of world artistic production from 1960 to the present. The children are in a position to engage in fertile and creative dialogue with these works, because they like to experiment, to discover and to express themselves in their own way, just as contemporary artists do.
The MMCA organises educational programmes designed chiefly to introduce children to the magical world of modern art in an entertaining way. These educational programmes create a lively, creative and inspiring learning environment for the schoolchildren and their teachers who visit the museum.
The educational programmes use the children’s own knowledge and experience as a starting-point for their engagement with modern art, and cultivate their ability to extract information from the works, to make hypotheses and to draw conclusions about them. They make use of all sorts of means to bring the works to life for the children: story-telling based on the works, life-experience games, puppet theatre, group projects, creative writing, etc.
The programmes are prepared and conducted by the MMCA’s team of experts, which includes museologists, educators, art historians and graduates of Fine Arts schools. Joint work is done with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Interdisciplinary Post-graduate Museology programme and its Department of Education Sciences and Pre-school Education.
