EDUCATIONAL PROPOSALS MUNICIPALITY OF MILAN

The GAM Educational Section, managed by the Scholastic and Educational Services Area of ​​the Municipality of Milan, has had its own headquarters inside the Gallery of Modern Art since January 2017.
The educational proposals aimed at the School and the Territory have among their main objectives the education of the students' artistic, historical and cultural heritage. Arousing amazement, wonder, curiosity and interest, they allow the study and knowledge of works of art through a non-notional method, creating a deep and emotional relationship with one's city. The educational offer, with diversified paths for the different levels of school education, is designed and aimed at the last year of nursery school, primary school, first and second level secondary school.

For educational courses of HERITAGE EDUCATION artistic from nursery school to secondary school contact:
Educational Section of the Municipality of Milan - School and Educational Services Area
Educational Initiatives Units and Territorial Teaching Units
GAM Educational Section - Gallery of Modern Art
Phone 02 88462764
Email: ED.ScuoleDidatticaGam@comune.milano.it
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ASTER TEACHING PROPOSALS

Aster srl, concessionaire of the educational-didactic services of the Gallery of Modern Art, offers visits and workshops to schools, adults, families with children: all the routes take place as interactive experiences that stimulate observation and the critical spirit, leverage the involvement of participants and their senses to offer an immersive activity, stimulating curiosity and inviting reflection on the role and meaning of cultural heritage.
The educational proposals are organized according to school programs of all levels, from nursery school to secondary school: the interdisciplinary approach, the methods of communication suited to different types of public, inclusion are the basis of the educational proposal which aims to contextualise the importance of the Villa Reale in the urban fabric and in the historical-artistic context, enhancing the strong link between the works exhibited in the Gallery of Modern Art and the city of Milan. The combination of history and art and the good fortune of being able to also observe contemporary works by foreign artists highlight the non-marginal role of Milan in the artistic movements of the 800th and 900th centuries. 
For guided tours and educational proposals from ASTER srl (from nursery school to secondary school, from families to groups of adults) contact:

ASTER srl
Phone 02 20404175
Mon-Fri 9.00-17.00
Email: info@spazioaster.it

THE VILLA OF WONDERS
Guided tour with activities in the museum - Kindergarten and Primary School 1st year - 1h
A graceful and amazed walk through the rooms with your head raised looking for curious and captivating details in Albertolli's stucco decorations; we pass through the wonderful historic rooms of the eighteenth-century villa with an attentive and rapt gaze to be amazed by the splendor and to play with the wonder moved by the dimensions of the spaces, the preciousness of the furnishings, the splendor of the frescoes. Even the paintings are no different, offering us rich clothes and singular hairstyles in which unusual details are hidden that tell us so much about the client. The itinerary ends with the "tale of the villa" told with the kamishibai to make the little ones understand the importance of protecting and preserving a museum. 
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €70 per class (max 25 students)

THE MATTER OF ART
Visit with laboratory activity - Primary school – 2 h
A path dedicated to the discovery of different artistic techniques. Following the variety of works of art on display, we select those most representative of the "professions" of the artists and the materials they used: the marble sculptor with Canova, the artist who works clay with Pacetti, the master of plaster and of bronze with Grandi, who then experiments with wax like Medardo Rosso. In painting we know the innovative colors in tubes with Segantini, the pastel on paper by Boldini, the prints and posters of Toulouse-Lautrec. The objective is to understand the executive procedure of the techniques and then immerse oneself in the laboratory activity which focuses on sculptural practice, using clay differently between the first and second cycles, to experiment with manipulation and modelling.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €125 per class (max 25 students)

LOOK AND (NOT) TOUCH?
Visit with laboratory – Primary school - 1h30'
We familiarize ourselves with the different forms of art, observing in the works of painting and sculpture details and details capable of surprising and intriguing us: flowers carved in marble that seem real, lace and fabrics that suggest softness and rustles, lawns on which we want to run in the landscapes , animals you want to pet. A hunt for detail underlines the mimetic ability of art to reproduce reality and to also involve the sense of touch and hearing with sight: by observing, touching and listening, we find objects and atmospheres together in the works, leaving ample space for children in the expression of their impressions and sensations, involving them in a participatory dialogue and in a laboratory in which they can give space to their expressive freedom.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €90 per class (max 25 students)

A MUSEUM IN THE GARDEN, THE GARDEN IN THE MUSEUM
Guided tour – Primary school - 2h
A journey that starts outdoors to talk to children about gardens and their relationship with the buildings that usually surround them in the city, with the aim of increasing their sensitivity for the protection of the landscape and art through the observation of nature. In the splendid garden of the Villa Reale, map in hand, we look for the elements of wonder present and underline their diversity compared to "normal" gardens, imagining together the functions of the park for the inhabitants of the villa and for us now. Always with the map, inside the museum you go in search of the gardens present in the paintings. Grand finale with the observation of the garden from the windows to underline the architectural relationship between villa and nature.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €125 per class (max 25 students)

IT'S A CLASSIC! 
Visit with laboratory – Primary school – 1h30'
The playful activity uses unconventional techniques for the free creative expression of children's emotions and moods and starts with a short guided tour of the neoclassical works of art to research together with the children the standards of perfection and beauty that characterize the taste of time. The workshop is inspired by a masterpiece by Canova, which the children are asked to transform into a game, inspired by the irreverent lesson of Dadaism: with the tool of collage and pictorial decoration the candid starting image can take on an appearance and a meaning completely new, dictated only by the free interpretation of children and maximum freedom of expression.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €100 per class (max 25 students)

WHAT A STYLE! 
Visit with laboratory - Lower secondary school – 2h30' 
The course addresses the grammar of visual language to learn to read a work of art and to introduce artistic tools and techniques with the aim of extending the reading method from the works of the GAM to all those of Italian art. The visit is in fact dedicated to understanding the pictorial style from the end of the 700th century to the avant-garde of the 900th century, carrying out a stylistic reading of a selection of works together with the students: from the "finiteness" of Appiani's neoclassical painting to Hayez's Romanticism, from nuanced and soft rendering of the Scapigliatura of Cremona to the strokes and filaments painting of the Divisionism of Previati and Segantini up to the dynamic research of the Futurism of Balla. We start from the stylistic and formal analysis to understand the social and cultural reasons for the radical change that has occurred in the world of art in recent centuries, connecting the works exhibited to a broader framework of History and the History of Art and working on emotions and on student introspection. In the laboratory, the different pictorial methods investigated are experimented to compare the different intentions and effects from Neoclassicism to Futurism.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €145 per class (max 25 students)

THE MODERN ART GALLERY OF MILAN 
Guided tour - 1st and 30nd grade secondary school – XNUMXhXNUMX'
An eighteenth-century villa in the center that houses art collections of great interest: this is the GAM. After having illustrated the architectural structure and history of the collections, we delve into the most significant works of the main artists and movements. From the neoclassical period with Canova and Appiani to the Romanticism of Hayez to the masterpieces of Scapigliatura, Divisionism and Symbolism with Grandi, Segantini, Previati, focusing on the Fourth Estate by Pellizza da Volpedo. The gaze also shifts to European artists such as Manet, Van Gogh, Cézanne and Picasso and approaches the Italian twentieth century with Boccioni, Balla and Morandi. Ranging between different materials and techniques and guiding the observation of the work, we approach the works by highlighting the content, formal and executive aspects in the historical-artistic context of the movement to which they belong.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €90 per class (max 25 students)

LIGHT, SHAPE AND MATTER 
Guided tour – Secondary School – 2h
A path designed for those who already have a good knowledge of art history and want to delve deeper into some formal aspects of art between the 800th and 900th centuries. In fact, we deal with the research on light conducted by many artists from the second half of the nineteenth century, technically (following the scientific theories of color decomposition) or empirically (often linked to photography). We talk about the different declinations of this study (sculpture, role of color, pictorial drafting) starting from the various technical enunciations of Scapigliatura and Divisionism with the works for example of Pellizza da Volpedo, Segantini, Previati and Morbelli; we arrive at the sculpture of Medardo Rosso and Rodin and the use of pastel by Zandomeneghi up to the eclectic Grassi collection characterized precisely by research on light from the Scapigliatura to the Futurists. The journey ends with Corot's graphic (and photographic) expression and the use of light in Morandi's engravings.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €125 per class (max 25 students)

TRADITION VS INNOVATION
Visit with laboratory - Secondary school – 2h30'
Reflecting on the fundamental role of art as a key to understanding the culture of one's time is the objective of the journey. The visit unfolds among a careful selection of works, identified as the best representative of an artistic movement or group: artists of the caliber of Hayez, Segantini, Medardo Rosso, Van Gogh or Balla are framed in the historical and literary context, analyzing their works in iconography, style, technique and commissioning, comparing them to identify elements of continuity or rupture with respect to their chronological framework. In the laboratory, the critical reading learned is put into practice: starting from the image of a work, it is transformed into a tool for reflection on today's everyday life, just as Street Art does with its intent to denounce.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €145 per class (max 25 students)

GALLERY WITH A VIEW
Guided tour – 2st and XNUMXnd grade secondary school - XNUMXh
A journey that aims to underline the close relationship in the History of Art between gardens and their buildings and more generally between Nature, Art and the artist's gaze. The garden of the Villa Reale is in fact the first English garden in Milan, which contrasts with the Italian garden; we investigate the apparent spontaneous arrangement of tree species as if it were a natural landscape, discovering that nothing is random just as the arrangement of architecture and statues is not, but that, on the contrary, it all responds to the view that the designer wanted to be enjoyed from the villa and in the garden. Thus we observe how even in the works that portray everyday and objective scenes, the study of the view chosen by the author with particular, almost photographic cuts or the choice of format and lighting system is fundamental, up to the singular frames and the same architectural container, the villa, which houses the collections. A path that underlines how the artist's point of view is always studied and fundamental in the balance of one's creation.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €125 per class (max 25 students)

A LESSON FROM GIUSEPPE PARINI 
Visit with actor – I and II level secondary school - 1h30'
A guide and an actor in the role of Giuseppe Parini lead us inside and outside the villa to introduce us in a participatory and engaging way to the cultural and artistic context of Milan between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century: the great man of letters - in dialogue with the guide and participants in a sort of ideal lesson - exposes the fundamental principles of Enlightenment culture and neoclassical taste which developed systematically in Milan at the end of the eighteenth century thanks to the policy of the Austrian government. Who better than him, after all, who had a key role in directing the iconographic choices of the period, having been a tutor, teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and consultant to the most important artists, dictating the programs for the cycles decorative in the most important construction sites active in the city, just as happens at Villa Reale. His biting satire highlights not only the changes in taste that occurred between the end of the 18th century and the Napoleonic era but also how the high moral and educational ideals to be pursued in the artistic and social sphere are often disregarded by young gentlemen dedicated to idleness and to entertainment.
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €190 per class (max 25 students)

I BECOME A WORK OF ART!
Visit with laboratory – Public with fragility – 1h30'
The itinerary develops around five works from the Museum depicting the body in space. The aim is to get to know the work of art by identifying with it through body movements. After observing the work, it is described or described and this operation is strengthened by having the participants imitate the positions of the figures, with the possibility of adding tactile exploration for the sculptures. 
Cost: free entrance ticket; activity €90 per class (max 15 people)

POSING!
Birthday for children 6-11 years – 2h
The course involves a playful collaborative activity. In the rooms there is a limited number of works, focusing mainly on paintings by Segantini such as The Two Mothers and The Angel of Life. In the laboratory the children are then divided into pairs and each chooses which role to take on, whether model or painter: the artist must then pose his subject to portray it and finally complete the work with oil pastels to recreate the effect of the brushstroke "split". Everyone gets involved in carrying out their role, strictly respecting the assigned pose or rendering the features with the greatest possible fidelity, to obtain the best artistic result. And then, change!
Cost: free entrance ticket for children, according to the current rates for adults; activity €250 per group (max 25 people)