Kids Day is an educational program designed to introduce children between 4 and 10 years of age to modern and contemporary art and to make their visit to the museum more comprehensible. Kids Day occurs every SUNDAY from 3.00 to 4.30 pm at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
The program begins with a brief tour of the museum centred
on the theme of the day, introducing children to ideas
and concepts presented in museum and focusing on an artistic
movement, a technique, a particular artist, etc. Afterwards,
the children participate in a workshop to have the opportunity
to put into practice what they saw during the tour.
The program is primarily conducted in Italian, but the
numerous foreign interns at the museum make the activities
often available in other languages. The workshops are
generally held in the museum library, in the Nasher Sculpture
Garden or in the temporary exhibition galleries.
The main aim of the program is to assist our youngest
visitors to understand the artworks in the Peggy Guggenheim
Collection by using simple concepts from everyday life
and allowing them direct contact with the artworks. The
approach attempts to make the abstract or complex concepts
more comprehensible. It also intends to involve children
in examining the works of the museum through fun activities
that stimulate their creativity. The educational workshops
not only allow children to view artworks in ways that
are suited to their needs and attention span, but they
allow the parents to enjoy their visit to the museum while
their children are engaged in the workshops.
WORKSHOPS
 ATTENTION: For booking please phone on the Friday prior to the workshop, starting from 09:30
Sunday, September 5, 3pm
Venice, New York, Bilbao. A trip around the world in search of the Guggenheim Architecture
Through this activity, the children will analyze the architecture of the Guggenheim Museums, taking their visit of the 18th-century Palazzo Venier as a starting point, famous for being the residence of the collector Peggy Guggenheim for 30 years. Through the comparison of Peggy’s house-museum and the architectural structures in New York by Frank Lloyd Wright and in Bilbao by Frank Gehry, the participants will be encouraged to reflect about the personality of the architect and his role within the museums, which are true works of art in their own right.
Sunday, September 12, 3pm
The Abstract Expressionism of Adolph Gottlieb
The temporary exhibition Adolph Gottlieb. A retrospective, will allow young visitors to discover and explore the personality of the American artist, who is considered a founding figure of the Abstract Expressionist movement. During this workshop, the participants will familiarize themselves with the concept of the pictograph through Gottlieb’s Pictograph, characterised by mysterious and antique symbols which are located within irregular grid-systems, seen in the paintings.
Sunday, September 19, 3pm
Learning English through 20-century artists: Kandinsky
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection dedicates one regular event to the union of art and the English language: once a month, a KIDS DAY workshop, will be exclusively run by English native speakers; this will allow the children to approach the foreign language in an interactive way, at once artistic and entertaining. In September, the workshop will focus on the acquisition of vocabulary linked with Kandinsky’s artistic production.
FAMILY FESTIVAL
 
Saturday, September 25 and Sunday, September 26
FAMILY FESTIVAL BETWEEN ART & SCIENCE
In collaboration with the Marino Golinelli Foundation and Coop, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents a weekend which is dedicated to families with a range of free activities and workshops revolving around the double theme of science and art.
Saturday, September 25, 11 am and 3 pm
H2O, biodiversity in art by Giulia Filippi
This workshop is dedicated to stagnant water and its strange occupants, in order to find out more about them and to talk about biodiversity and pollution. The activity will explore micro-life which is present in a drop of water thanks with a number of instruments, which are rather uncommon in an artist’s workshop, but all the more familiar in the world of science: pipettes, flasks and Petri dishes.
Sunday, September 26, 11 am and 3 pm
Binary Dualism by Virginia di Lazzaro with Formath Project
This workshop aims at creating thought about the impact of identification codes on personal identity. Through a program designed to convert letters and words into binary codes, we will translate all of the participants’ names. This data can then be used to create a personal artwork and to realize a collective installation which will fill up, step by step, the garden of the Collection with colored polka-dots which, although apparently abstract and devoid of signification, are in reality transpositions of an alphabet in binary codes.
Sunday, September 26, 6.30 pm
Family Party
Sunday, September 26, from 6.30 pm
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection will be open for parents and children for afternoon snacks.
For the whole weekend
Presentations to the public for discovering the art-works of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection from a scientific point of view and to show that art and science are not actually two worlds apart.
All activities are free of charge. Please note that reservation is required from Monday, September 20 onwards. Please call +39 041.2405. 444/ 401.
For information and bookings, please contact:
Anita Todesco
Education Assistant
tel. +39.041.2405.444
e-mail: atodesco@guggenheim-venice.it |
