Every Wednesday at the Museum! Creative workshops for children

The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle has launched a new institution in its educational activities for children, which embraces the needs of our students for experiential play, social contacts, creative knowledge and entertainment. The content of the workshops gives the opportunity to children aged 6-12 years old, along with the creative approach to the history of Macedonia, to bring out their own unique identity as members of a wider society, observing, reflecting, exploring and capturing with their own artistic view the concepts of collectivity, sacrifice, freedom, love and acceptance.

“We hope that the art workshops will become a favorite meeting place for the children of our city.”

Each Wednesday had a different theme and was enriched with original activities combining art with technology, folklore with creative writing, history with theatrical expression. During the meetings, the responsible educators and visual artists of the workshops motivated the children, through modern museum and educational techniques, to express themselves freely, individually and in groups, to develop aesthetic judgment and critical thinking, to transfer new knowledge into artistic actions, to collaborate to create their own unique artworks and a new friendly company.

Through fun, interactive games, the children had the opportunity to explore the museum and exhibition material, to animate the artworks through music and theatre, to write stories, texts and poems, use digital applications to be guided to the secrets of the past through the research method at the Museum’s Macedonian History and Documentation Research Centre, experiment with different materials, textures and techniques and create their own original artworks and scrapbooks.

The workshops were held for the spring of 2022 in two cycles during the months of March and April, in the Museum’s premises, from 6.00 to 7.30 pm. The general coordination of the workshops was carried out by the Art Historian and Director of the Museum, Fani Tsatsiaia, the scientific supervision by the Associate Professor of the University of Macedonia and Director of the Centre for Research on Macedonian History and Documentation of the Museum, Stavroula Mavrogeni, and the design and implementation of the programme by the educator – writer, Katerina Tzavara. From the staff of IMMA participated Messrs. Eleni Mavridou and Cilia Fassianou. Art workshops were implemented by Ms. Nelly Afentoulidou, visual artist, and Efrosini Sapiridou, visual artist-conservator of works of art.

We would like to thank the family of the late Alexandros Haitoglou and the food industry “Haitoglou Brothers ABEE” for the sweet treat for the children.