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Do's and don'ts in a museum: Teaching package
This teaching package focuses on investigative learning. Why are you not allowed to eat and drink in a museum? Why are you not allowed to take flash photos of works of art? Why are you not allowed to touch a painting or statue? Put on your lab …
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Why see art in real life?: Teaching package
What differences do you experience when looking at art in real life or on the internet? After an introductory vlog in which Leonard and his virtual assistant JOS go in search of Professor Siebenstein's laboratory to unravel why seeing art in real …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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World music with song and gourd
Music with gourds (also known as water drums) and voice is a unique experience for everyone. Together in a circle of connection, the participants experience an unforgettable musical journey on the border between making music and meditating... …
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Bucket hoe, bucket drum
Do you need expensive instruments to make music? Of course not.
Armed with a set of drumsticks, we get the coolest rhythms out of something as ordinary as a set of buckets. Under the guidance of our enthusiastic music educator and …
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Museum Escape: Escape from the museum
By always looking carefully at the works of art, you can solve JOS's riddles and escape from the museum. With each new turn, you get a new question and discover a new work of art!
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The Earth Orchestra: Together is beautiful
Together is beautiful is the first song by The Earth Orchestra. This is an orchestra with input from 197 countries with all kinds of voices and a variety of classical and ethnic instruments. Such a song and such an orchestra is a first in music …
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Radio Word Forest: Listening to images with a story
What do you see in a sculpture? What would the artist have thought of when creating this image?
On the occasion of Antwerp Book City in 2004, the Middelheim Museum commissioned various youth authors to write a story for an image from the permanent …Translated by
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The Little Prehistory: Workshop
If you opt for this playful and interactive workshop, tailored to children from six to eleven years old, depending on the weather conditions, we will introduce you to the hunter-gatherers (until 10,000 years ago) or the farmers. The first workshop …
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Expedition tool
There's more to a song than you think, namely… instruments. Instruments are needed to make music. Have you ever blown on a trombone, a clarinet or a flute? Also the stringed instruments should not be missing: cello, violin, guitar… …
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Megadrummer orchestra
The group discovers the ten basic rhythms using:
- blocks,
- sticks,
- to call,
- castanets,
- pots,
- pans
- our own body.
After this search, we puzzle together into one big whole and make our own beat. Some dance steps will not be missing.
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Rubbish recycling orchestra
A pep bottle, beer bottle, crown cap, old ladle, plate, glass, PVC tube… We sort the waste and discover how we can reuse waste to craft our own musical instrument. Hammer, nails, drills, screws, etc. are our best friends and we close the …
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