Education

The CAMeC’s Educational Department offers a spacious and bright dedicated area, fully accessible to all.

In line with the Centre’s mission—particularly its focus on accessibility and social inclusion—it provides activities designed for all age groups and audiences. These aim to foster cultural development, encourage familiarity with contemporary art, and nurture critical thinking and individual sensitivity.

Guided tours, interactive visits, workshops, artist talks, and lectures are just some of the educational and engaging experiences offered by the Museum in its role as an active cultural institution. It promotes an aesthetic experience that is inseparable from an ethical dimension.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR SCHOOLS
The Centre offers a wide range of programs for schools of all levels, including workshops and interactive visits focused on major artistic themes or on current exhibitions.

MUSEUMS FOR SCHOOLS – Educational Paths 2024/2025
For upper secondary schools, customized educational programs can be arranged. These are designed as formative experiences that can contribute to earning school credits, similar to work-based learning schemes.

For information and bookings:
cristiana.maucci@comune.sp.it | +39 0187 727530

KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL (Grades 1–2)

COLOR HUNT
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: While exploring the museum galleries, students will go on a “color hunt,” searching for primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in the artworks on display. They will learn how colors are created, examine their characteristics, distinguish between warm and cool tones, and associate them with different emotions.

ANIMALS AND MONSTERS
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression, animals, natural sciences
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This activity introduces students to artistic representations of animals and fantastic or monstrous creatures. Young visitors will identify and categorize animals as domestic, wild, or imaginary—creations of the artists’ imagination. In the hands-on workshop, they will choose to represent their favorite animal or invent an entirely new creature, expressing their creativity freely through shape and color.

MY WAY – Discovering Artistic Techniques
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: A discovery-based activity that introduces young students to the artistic techniques found in the exhibited works. Through observation and guided discussion, students will be encouraged to explore and experiment during the workshop. Using materials and mixed techniques such as collage, décollage, painting, dripping, and assemblage, children will create original works of art inspired by their own imagination.

PRIMARY SCHOOL – GRADES 3, 4 AND 5

THE WORLD AROUND US – Natural and Man-Made Landscapes
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression, history
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: Everything around us is part of a landscape—the combination of natural and/or man-made elements that characterize a particular area. Human presence has profoundly shaped and transformed the landscape over time, and artists have captured and represented these changes. During our visit to the museum galleries, we will observe various landscapes depicted by artists, distinguishing between natural, man-made, and imaginary scenes. In the hands-on workshop, students will create a personalized landscape of their own.

A MUSEUM FOR EVERYONE – Seeing with Hands, Feeling with Eyes
TARGET GROUP: Primary school – Grades 3, 4 and 5
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art, visual expression, social inclusion
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This educational path takes place in the CAMeC’s Accessibility Room, an exhibition project based on the principle of accessibility, offering visitors a unique aesthetic experience. Through tactile panels, Italian Sign Language videos, audio files, Braille texts, and LOGES flooring, participants will explore the museum using alternative sensory approaches—making this a truly extraordinary and inclusive experience.

COLOR HUNT
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: Exploring the museum galleries, students will go on a “color hunt,” identifying primary, secondary, and tertiary colors in the artworks on display. They will learn how colors are formed, analyze their properties, distinguish between warm and cool tones, and associate them with emotions they evoke.

ANIMALS AND MONSTERS
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression, natural sciences, history
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This program explores artistic representations of animals—often portrayed with unusual colors—and of monstrous or imaginary creatures. Students will learn about their features, symbolism, and meanings. During the workshop, they will either depict their favorite animal or invent a brand new one, freely experimenting with shapes and colors to express their creativity.

MY WAY – Discovering Artistic Techniques
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This journey into the diverse world of artistic techniques helps students discover their communicative and expressive potential. Through observation of current exhibitions, participants will reflect on differences between painting, sculpture, collage, photography, video, and more—and how each medium conveys emotions and engages the viewer. The hands-on workshop encourages active experimentation, allowing students to compare and combine various techniques while developing their own expressive language.

LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOL

THE WORLD AROUND US – Natural and Man-Made Landscapes
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression, history
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: Everything that surrounds us is part of a landscape—a combination of natural and/or man-made elements that define a particular place or territory. Human presence has deeply shaped and altered the landscape, and artists have captured and portrayed these changes throughout history. During the visit to the museum’s galleries, students will explore various landscapes depicted by artists, distinguishing between natural, artificial, and imaginary environments. In the hands-on workshop, they will create a personalized landscape of their own design.

ALL INCLUSIVE – Seeing with Hands, Feeling with Eyes
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art, visual expression, social inclusion
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This educational path unfolds through a visit to CAMeC’s Accessibility Room—an exhibition project founded on the principle of accessibility, offering visitors a unique aesthetic experience. Through tactile panels, Italian Sign Language (LIS) videos, audio guides, Braille texts, and LOGES flooring, participants will be able to explore the artworks through alternative sensory approaches. Students will engage with the museum’s artistic heritage via an inclusive setup that goes beyond traditional scientific and aesthetic criteria, embracing an ethical dimension aimed at breaking down perceptive and sensory barriers. This experience promotes inclusion and provides new ways of interacting with art.

ARTISTS AND ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This program introduces students to the diverse world of artistic techniques, helping them discover the expressive and communicative tools used by the featured artists. Participants will reflect on the differences between painting, sculpture, photography, video, and more—examining how each medium represents, engages, and moves the viewer. They will explore how technical choices and artistic language shape the message of a work of art and can even become metaphors for its content. Contemporary media such as performance and video are often integral to the message itself. The hands-on workshop includes active experimentation, allowing students to compare techniques and develop their own expressive language.

UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL

For upper secondary schools, the museum offers customizable educational programs designed as formative activities that may also be eligible for school-work alternance credit.

ALL INCLUSIVE – Seeing with Hands, Feeling with Eyes
TARGET GROUP: Upper secondary school
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art, visual expression, social inclusion
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This educational path unfolds through a visit to the CAMeC Accessibility Room—an exhibition project built around the principle of accessibility, offering a unique aesthetic experience. Tactile panels, Italian Sign Language (LIS) videos, audio guides, Braille texts, and LOGES flooring allow visitors to explore the exhibition using alternative sensory channels. Students will engage with the museum’s artistic heritage through a layout that breaks down perceptual and sensory barriers. The experience goes beyond purely scientific and aesthetic criteria, taking on an ethical dimension that fulfills the goal of inclusion.

ANIMALS BETWEEN ORIENTAL FANTASIES AND THE CONTEMPORARY GAZE
A journey through the Seal Museum and CAMeC, with connections to manga and advertising culture
TARGET GROUP: Upper secondary school
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression, history
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: The animal world has always fascinated humans, who have depicted it from prehistoric times to the present, emphasizing different traits over time. In art history, animals have been portrayed in allegorical, naturalistic, and fairy-tale ways—from religious symbolism to contemporary metaphors. This educational journey begins at the Seal Museum, which features animal-shaped seals inspired by Eastern fantasies, similar to those found in manga comics. It then continues at CAMeC, where students will explore diverse contemporary interpretations, including references used in the world of advertising.

ARTISTS AND ARTISTIC TECHNIQUES
TARGET GROUP: Upper secondary school
AREAS OF INTEREST: Art and visual expression
FORMAT: One in-person session, approximately 1.5 to 2 hours
PROJECT: This program introduces students to the world of artistic techniques, encouraging them to discover the wide range of expressive and communicative tools used by the featured artists. Participants will reflect on the differences among painting, sculpture, photography, video, and other media, exploring how each one represents, engages, and evokes emotions differently. They will examine how the choice of technique and medium influences the message of an artwork, sometimes becoming a metaphor itself. Modern media like performance and video are often an integral part of the conveyed message. The hands-on lab session includes active experimentation, where students compare various techniques and develop their own expressive language.

ART THERAPY

Since 2005, CAMeC has been running Art Therapy workshops—an innovative pilot project developed in collaboration with ASL 5 of La Spezia, aimed at young people and adults with mental health difficulties. In 2016, the program was expanded through a partnership with the Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Department, involving participants in developmental age.

Held from October to May, the workshops use art as a tool to promote social inclusion, encourage autonomy, and develop communication and relational skills. Each session draws inspiration from the current exhibitions and is designed in collaboration with CAMeC’s education department. The program concludes with an exhibition of the participants’ artworks displayed within the museum spaces.

Additional activities are carried out in cooperation with local day centres and associations working on social inclusion and caregiver support.

GUIDED TOURS

The Center welcomes school groups and other groups wishing to have a guided tour of the current exhibitions.
This service is available by reservation only, with at least 3 days’ notice, at the following rates:

• €30.00 for schools

• €50.00 for groups

For information and reservations:
Phone: +39 0187 727530
Email: camec.reception@comune.sp.it / cristiana.maucci@comune.sp.it