With imaginative children’s workshops, family backpacks, gallery talks for adults, Christmas tunes, harp melodies in the Parthenon Gallery and more surprises, the Acropolis Museum will welcome its visitors during the month of December.
Little friends who visit the Museum during the festive season will have the opportunity to create their own buildings using white LEGO bricks and plenty of imagination. Their inspiration will be the temples, columns and capitals of the Acropolis!
The workshop is held by the Acropolis Restoration Service Education Team and is designed for kids from 7 to 11 years old.
Using today’s festive plants as a starting point, children and adults can discover the special importance of particular plants in ancient Greece, such as the olive, oak and laurel. They will be exposed to the beautiful foliage and fruits that can be seen in the Museum’s art, in order to create its colourful, festive of trees.
The workshop is held by the Museum Archaeologist-Hosts and is designed for kids from 4 to 12 years old.
The ship of the Panathenaic festival inside the Museum is another proposal. A boat with an impressive colourful sail used to travel on wheels up to the foot of the Acropolis for the splendid Panathenaic festival. Children and adults will bring the sea to the land of the Museum in a colourful paper mosaic, at the same time discovering the marine world of the art of the Acropolis.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to admire the suspended creations in the lit-up Museum. The ancients used to hang ornaments, sacred and everyday objects, on the walls of buildings and the trees of sanctuaries. Through art and ancient writers, children and adults will come into contact with such objects in the form of clay and metal panels, garlands and wreaths of flowers, ribbons and fabrics, musical instruments and pottery. They will decorate walls and bright trees at the Museum with their own colourful, suspended creations.
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