Genus Bononiae for Schools

The projects have been elaborated within a programme of educational packages that provide discounted rates according to the number of activities booked from each school. Schools’ managers and teachers can also ask for an appointment with the project Coordinator to customize the proposals according to the didactic needs of their Institution.

• Suitable for: customizable
• Cost: customizable

10 objects to discover the history of Bologna

Animated visit

A visit to discover some fundamental steps of the urban and cultural development of the city. Starting with 10 key objects, students set out on a passionate journey in the history of Bologna, from its origins to contemporaneity. An itinerary through the Museum’s rooms meeting important characters, going through different places and taking part in episodes that made our city important. Specially created maps make it an interactive and engaging visit.

• Suitable for: lower and upper secondary schools
• Cost: € 70 each class group

My Bologna

Guided tour and workshop

A visit to discover Bologna’s history and reflect on the contemporary city. After a brief excursus in the Museum’s rooms, in the laboratory each student is asked to creatively elaborate their own perception of the urban space in which they live. The result is a special emotional guide of the city: a collective text that contains stories and emotions related to the most characteristic places of Bologna.

• Suitable for: lower and upper secondary schools
• Cost: € 70 each class group

In the Palace of Counts Pepoli

Theatrical visit with a professional actress

A special animated visit conducted by a weird character, inspired by the comedy of art. Students are involved in an unusual journey through medieval Bologna accompanied by Cesira Fantoni, Countess Pepoli’s maid, who reveals segrets and adventures of the noble Pepoli family. This proposal enables students to acquire knowledge by having fun and taking part into the performance.

• Suitable for: second cycle of primary schools, lower and upper secondary schools
• Cost: € 80 each class group

Water itineraries

“Whether you go around the historical centre or you climb up to the Torre degli Asinelli, you never get the chance to see any canal (…) few people know that there are lots of water canals underground…” wrote a high school stundent after he found out that in Bologna, many years ago, there were canals instead of certain streets.
1° Meeting. A guided tour inside the Museum’s rooms to admire the artworks of famous artists that painted Bologna’s canals and to explore the immersive room that virtually reproduces the underground city. In the laboratory students can imagine and realize personal “views” of a city that no longer exists.
2° Meeting.Using a paper map, students go through an evocative itinerary in the streets of Bologna to discover traces and places related to the so called “city of waters”. From Palazzo Pepoli to the canale delle Moline, then towards the sluise of via Riva di Reno to arrive to the Canale del Cavaticcio and ending in the Salara, where the old harbour of Bologna was located. The activity is based on two appointments: the first meeting provides a guided tour and a workshop in the Museum; the second meeting includes the animated visit with didactic support throughout the city.

• Suitable for: second cycle of primary schools, upper and lower secondary schools
• Cost: € 70 each group class + € 50 each group class

Art in music

Guided tour with musical performance

A special visit through the Museum’s rooms to admire and listen to the antique musical instruments of the Tagliavini Collection. The curator Maestro Tamminga, a famous concert player, participates to the tour playing spinets, clavichords and organs whose magical musical notes pervade the rooms frescoed by Ludovico Carracci’s disciples. A pluri-sensory experience for both young and adult participants.

• Suitable for: second cycle of primary schools, lower and upper secondary schools
• Cost: € 70 each group/classroom

Arcades and towers of Bologna

Path adaptable depending on the target class

An animated tour focused the medieval era of Bologna; that has seen the rise of the first walls of selenite, the great universities and the original towers. An articulated path in the halls of the ground floor of the museum in which each student will be supported by several information sheets to stimulate a class active approach and which will serve as a recording tool of the points most important experience of the visit. The route will conclude with a tour through the historic center of the city, discovering the architectural characteristics that make famous Bologna. Note: for outdoor hiking teachers can decide to set up two different appointments or to unify the two encounters creating a single route (museum and city during a single meeting) lasting about 3 hours at a cost of € 100.

• Length: 1 hour and a half visit to the exhibition + 1h outdoor hiking

Like a Roman architect

A guided tour where you can find out the origins of Bologna. During the laboratory it will be made a cardboard model of the Roman city in which every child can have fun and explore it with their own imagination: build a Basilica, design the square and so on ...

• Suitable for: from 8 to 12 years

Your medieval town

During the visit all kids will feel Bolognese life during the Middle Ages to discover together what was like Bologna at the time of dames and knights. In the laboratory it will be built a cardboard model in which everyone will become a planner of the past! Together we will build the square, the Town Hall, the churches, the mills, the factories, the traders shops, the towers and the famous arcades of Bologna!

• Suitable for: from 8 to 12 years

What's your blazon?

A visit to learn about the history of the most famous Bolognese families through their legendary symbols. A blast from the past of Bologna to discover together intrigue and legends, battles and romances! During the workshop each child will make their own personal coat of arms, to become a famous warrior or a great queen of the past.

• Suitable for: from 6 to 11 years

In the Ulisse Aldrovandi's Dragon garden

A visit to learn about the great Ulisse Aldrovandi and his incredible inventions. During the workshop all the children will become ancient scientist like Ulisse and will invent and assemble, using a particular collage, its fantastic animal ... A rare species newly discovered!

• Suitable for: from 6 to 11 years

22 Towers - 37 Kilometers of Porticos - 2000 Years of History

Animated visit in Palazzo Pepoli Discover Bologna accompanied by APA! An interactive map leads the children through the museum’s rooms playing, solving riddles and listening to stories. Step by step the participants are involved in different activities to become little experts of Bologna, called the Learned.

• Suitable for: children aged between 7-11

His Majesty the tortellino

Animated visit and workshop in Palazzo Pepoli A visit to the Museum to discover how food and the Bolognese cooking tradition are closely related to the city’s history: from the mortedella’s origin to medieval banquets, from the porchetta feast rigt up to the machine to produce tortellini. The workshop is dedicated to the king of traditional Bolognese cuisine, his Majesty the tortellino; with its shape of mysterious origins, the tortellino becomes for the occasion not only a food to eat, but also a yummy pasta sculpture to create. This activity is not suitable for children with celiac disease.

• Suitable for: children aged between 5-11