Primary School

AROUND THE EXHIBITION HOP!

Artists have plenty of tricks up their sleeve when it comes to representing movement, be it stillness, frenetic, wavy or resonant. Taking some twenty works from the museum collection as a starting point, HOP! is an exhibition tailor-made for children aged between 6-12 years and is designed to stimulate the senses! Moving away from usual conventions, this exhibition puts the work within reach of the children and gives the adult a new take on art.

At the centre of the exhibition, child-height furniture offers a space for relaxation and exploration as well as a panoramic view of the work.  Young visitors can discover work at their own pace, using sensory boxes for touch, sound and smell and draw with their fingers. Instructions are intuitive, but for optimal group discovery, it is important to orientate the children, in small groups, towards the different activities proposed. If you choose a non-guided tour, the instruction folder will show you how to structure this exploration so that you can enjoy it as much as possible with your class.

In a neighbouring room, the HOP-lab invites young and old to explore movement with their bodies. An interactive video installation from PIMPAMPET Collective shows choreography corresponding to the eleven words that run through the theme of the exhibition. Please note: this installation is only accessible if you choose the ‘Animated Tour’ option.

Objectives of the visit:
- Discover art in an intuitive and playful way
- Explore movement: in art, with your body, in vocabulary
- Exhibition for children vs exhibition for adults: the rules of the museum remain the same for all. Let's find out what they are and learn to respect them.

Two options are available to you to discover this exhibition:

• 1. Self-guided tour

The teaching file tells you how to structure your discovery of the exhibition to take full advantage of it. Note that the HOP-lab is not accessible without a guide.

Practical Arrangements:
Duration of this free visit: 1h.
Price: free access for children and accompanying adults (max 2 free chaperones / 15 children).
1 minimum for 15 children maximum.
Reservation required.

• 2. Animated Tour

Our guide accompanies you in discovering the HOP! exhibition and its activities.
This option also gives you access to the HOP-lab.

Practical Arrangements:
Duration of this visit: 1h (40' in the exhibition and 20' in the lab).
Price: free access for children and accompanying adults (max 2 free chaperones / 15 children). €50  / guide / 1h / 15 children max.
Reservation required.

AROUND THE EXHIBITIONS ROBERT DOISNEAU

TIME TO POSE
Activity for children from 5 to 12 years.

Let's travel between the permanent collections of the Museum of Ixelles and the Robert Doisneau exhibition. Between photography and paintings, photo equipment, cameras, engraving tools, oil, pastels and brushes, how will the artists stop our crazy race? 1-2-3 Soleil! Stop! Standing still, what do we look like? What is the shape of our bodies? Is it curved or straight? Floppy or rigid?  Through play, we will explore movement in art and the feelings it brings about in our young visitors.

In the workshop, we will make silhouettes to decorate in black and white.

Objectives of the visit:
- Discover the notion of posing (with a camera and as a live model)
- Discover different tools used to capture the movement (painting, sculpture, photo)
- Observe works with still and moving bodies
- Compare different movements and different lines of force
- Use his/her own body to analyse a work
- Create a work that captures the movement of the body

Interactive guided tour of 1 hour or a tour with workshop lasting 1h30.
!!! You can also chose for the HOP-lab experience rather than the workshop, if you prefer. Please mention it clearly when you make your reservation.

Workshop visit of 1h30

- Combined with HOP! (1/2h in the expo Robert Doisneau, 1/2h at HOP !, 1/2h at the HOP-lab for a thematical visit with the movement of art)

- 3/4h at the expo of Robert Doisneau combines with a creative workshop (3/4u) with the goal to make a silhouette in movement and fil lit with black and white.

AROUND THE EXHIBITION ROBERT DOISNEAU

PARIS IS ALL SMALL
Activity for children from 7 to 12 years old

Paris is very small. That is its true greatness. Everyone is there. (...)
Extract from Paris is Tout Petit, Jacques Prévert

Paris is very small according to Prévert. Let's take an hour to go around with Robert Doisneau and his poet friends. During this visit, we will see the photographs of this famous French photographer. Doisneau, having been a friend of many poets in his time, will establish links between photos and words, listen to parts of poems and invent poetry.
We will also make the most of discovering Paris from another time, looking at fashion, transport, architecture etc. During the session, we will take the time to explore film photography, the operation of a camera and the appearance of colour photography.

Objectives of the visit:
- Discover the work and life of Robert Doisneau
- Travel to Paris at another time
- Express feelings of works through poetry
- Discover French poets and poets from the second half of the 20th century
- Explore the history and evolution of photography

Interactive guided tour of 1 hour or tour with workshop lasting 1h30.

Workshop visit of 1h30

- Combined with HOP! (1/2h in the expo Robert Doisneau, 1/2h at HOP !, 1/2h at the HOP-lab for a thematical visit with the movement of art)

- 3/4h at the expo of Robert Doisneau combines with a creative workshop (3/4u) with the goal to make a silhouette in movement and fil lit with black and white.

AROUND THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

SHOCK TRIO
Activity for children from 6 to 10 years.

Bring your students to the discovery of colour! Cyan, magenta and yellow - the three musketeers of painting are at your service! Make your ranges and discover the tones that best enhance your work.

Progress of the Activity
The observation of abstract and expressionist works opens a reflection on the singularity of the colours and allows the children to understand the concepts of flatness, transparency and polychromy. The workshop is based on the notions discovered during the visit. Inspired by a work of their choice, children are guided to associate emotion and colour. Through the exercise of painting, they move away from a chromatic (colourful) palette and thus experience the rejection of the same colour.

Key competencies required
- Identify and name the colours (primary, secondary, complementary colours) and their components.
- To express an emotion felt in front of a work and to translate it into another artistic language.
- Translate a personal perception.

Interactive guided tour of 1h or tour with workshop lasting 1h30.

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ARTY ANIMALS
From 6 to 9 years old

It's not only at the zoo that we can see animals! From the prehistoric times, man has a passion for the animal realm and has represented it in all its forms. Let's find out the animals that are hidden in the artworks of the museum and let's make our own fantastic bestiary.

Interactive tour of 1 hour or interactive tour and workshop of 1h30 (see practical info below).

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PORTRAIT GALLERY - TOUR OR TOUR-WORKSHOP
From 5 to 12 years

Who are these characters within in the rooms of the Museum of Ixelles? And what do they tell us? This playful tour will invite children to develop their imagination as well as help develop their understanding of the art of portraiture, from the Renaissance to the present day. At the end of the tour, the children will have discovered four to six portraits from the permanent collections in detail.

Complete the visit with a creative workshop where the children will make their own self-portrait with various accessories inspired from the museum's paintings.

Objectives of the visit:
- Discover portraits taken from different eras in the art history.
- Understand the importance of the portrait in the art of painting and its functions according to the different eras.
- Explore the theme of emotions through faces.
- Develop children's narrative imagination.
- Learn to draw their own face with realism and by adding a touch of originality.

Interactive tour of 1 hour or interactive tour and workshop of 1h30 (see practical info below).

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BODY STATES
From 7 to 12 years

Curved, bent, languid, swirling – the body is capable of many states and is always a source of fascination to artists.

Activity
Through a selection of works, children are presented with different modes of representation and the bodily expression of many emotions involved. They are invited to reproduce postures and feel the tension imposed by them. Children, transformed into living models, are sketched by their peers through various techniques.

Key Skills
-Reproduce, imitate and copy movements.
-Choose tools based on a mode of expression.
-Represent characters.

Guided interactive visit of 1h or with a workshop (1h30).

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MY OWN COLLECTION
From 10 to 14 years

Are you a collector at heart? Discover the magnificent collection of artworks and choose your favourites to create a personal mini catalogue.

Activity
The exhibition tour focuses of the theme of ‘collecting’.  Why do we collect things?  How is an art collection created?  What is the criteria for choosing the work?  During this discussion, students are encouraged to select 3-4 works that they would include in their own mini catalogue of the exhibition.  Creative work begins in the museum and ends with educational teaching including a variety of techniques such as drawing, painting and collage.

Key Skills
- Put forward and defend personal opinions and tastes with reference to artworks.
- Identify types of expression and art.
- Articulate ideas about a particular piece of art

Interactive tour of 1 hour or interactive tour and workshop of 1h30 (see practical info below).

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PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Interactive tour 1h
Number of students: max. 45 children.
Price: 50 € / guide.
1 guide for max. 15 children.
Free access for children and 2 accompanying adults per group of 15 children.

Workshop-Visit 1h30
Number of students: max. 30 children.
Price: 75€/guide.
1 guide for max. 15 students.
Free access for children and 2 accompanying adults per group of 15 children.

Information en reservations : Public Works Department, Stéphanie Masuy and Débora Leleu. Whitin a week you will get an answer, thank for understanding. 02/515 64 21/22 -  musee@ixelles.brussels