A NEW PROJECT FOR TEENAGERS AT MNIT
October 2023 – June 2024
The exhibition "Gods and mortals of ancient Egypt" (ZMEA) is the theme of a new museum education project, addressed to middle school and high school students, within Dialogue platform between MNIT and teenagers - Our museum / Your museum. The subject is addressed to the 5th, 6th and 9th grades of the partner schools, whose curriculum includes lessons about Egyptian culture and civilization: "Gheorghe Șincai" National College Cluj-Napoca, "Nicolae Bălcescu" Theoretical High School Cluj-Napoca, Cluj Energetic Technical High School and "Ștefan Pascu" Apahida High School.
We want to challenge the students to become part of a project carried out in a specific cultural space, which can offer them multiple perspectives in the context of an informal education in which they are involved - museographers, archaeologists, conservators, restorers but also teaching staff with different specializations.
What do we propose? Let's get a deeper insight into Egyptian culture with the help of the artifacts in the ZMEA exhibition. We also plan to carry out workshops (painting, graphics, literary creation) starting from the Egyptian artefacts in our exhibition and, last but not least, the elaboration of criteria for the future projects of the museum, taking into account the preferences of new generations.
The first meeting helped us get to know the subject - a visit to the exhibition, with lots of questions and exclamations: "Wow, is the mummy really real?" Is it from then, from the time of the pharaohs?". The children also took pictures, which they sent to us, to prove that they had paid attention to the museographers' guidelines. 😊
