Museum education programs

Dear Teachers, Directors and Educators,

We would like to call your attention to a new pedagogical kit that may help you in your work to develop intercultural competences and tolerance and to educate about, human rights and peaceful co-existence. The kit can also be implemented in subjects such as geography, history and civics.

In connection with the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the Museum of Ethnography, in cooperation with the Artemisszió Foundation, the Museum of Ethnography of Geneva, and the Ministry of Education and Culture presents its exhibition titled “The Other” between September 25th, 2008 and April 6th, 2009.

“Behind the question of cultural diversity, there lies an ancient problem of humanity: Difference; the interpretation, perception and presentation of as well as interaction with the Other; and the relationship between the Other and the Same. What should we do with this diversity?”

The aim of the exhibition is to present and help understand and accept other cultures.

The exhibition itself is a great opportunity to deconstruct our fear of the unknown, and our unfounded fears and prejudices. However, besides visiting the exhibition, the Museum of Ethnography and the Artemisszió Foundation are offering a wide range of resources for schools to take advantage of the pedagogical possibilities offered by the exhibit. 

 Museum education programs  

For students aged 10 to 13

All different, all equal
Cultural peculiarities, peculiar cultures.
Why does each group consider itself to be the centre of the world? Prejudices and what we can do about them.

”Three tribes”
Make up your own tribe!
Social conventions, expectations, adaptation and conflict management.

The world in our shopping cart
Where do the things in our shopping cart come from? How do the people who produce them live?

What do you have to do with it?
Globalization, social justice, human rights and global social responsibility.

For students aged 14 to 18

On the track of the colonisers
- the forms, periods, regions and actors of colonisation
- the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised
- the consequences of colonisation – neo-colonisation

Is the world really black and white?
- the biological and anthropological definition of race
- forms of racism – a historical overview (Apartheid, the Holocaust)
- anti-racist movements

Migrants in the world
- the motives behind migration
- a historical overview of migration, the connection between migration and globalisation
- migrants in the world and in Hungary
- migration as a resource

Shamans and chiefs
- the colonisation of North America
- Indian wars of independence
- the consequences of colonisation
- the colonisers’ culture – through Indian eyes
- modern Indian roles

Artisan workshops for the little and not so little ones
- African leather amulets
- plaster masks
- Indian bead stringing

Admission:

Full-price: 800 HUF
Student discount: 400 HUF
Museum programs: 400 HUF
Guided tour (up to 25 persons): 4000 HUF

Discounts:

For groups: 200 HUF/person discount in case of a simultaneous booking of a guided tour and a museum program

Participants of the guided tour or of any of the museum programs will be offered a museum pedagogical publication (according to the age of the group) as a gift.

Should you arrive from out of town, the Hungarian Train Company (MÁV) has a discount for groups.

According to the Ministry of Education and to the 59th article of the Law on Education, lessons held outside the classroom are considered regular class time.

Application for the museum education programs

The museum education programs take 90 minutes. The maximum size of a group is 15 people. If the class is bigger, please apply for the appropriate number of programs at the same time. The programs do not have fixed hours, so please book in advance:
Erika Koltay
Tel: (36 1) 473 24 39
Email: koltay@neprajz.hu

Other programs related to the exhibition

During the exhibition we are planning to organize further cultural programs, discussions and presentations. You can read more about these programs on the website of the exhibition: www.masik.hu