The museum Educational Departments
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
via Magenta 31, 10128 Torino Italy - T 011 4429518
GAM’s Educational Department offers activities for schools, for the integration of disabled people, workshops, educational parties and family activities. The educational publications’ historical archive may also be consulted.
http://www.gamtorino.it/links1.php?pag=3
e-mail: gamdidattica@fondazionetorinomusei.it
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation
via Modane 16, 10141 Torino - T 011 3797600
The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation offers approach routes to contemporary art, addressed to kindergarten, primary, secondary and high schools; but it also offers training courses, the "Arte in classe" (Art in the classroom, TN) call for works, family Sundays and a cultural mediation programme.
http://www.fondsrr.org/fond.html
e-mail: dip.educativo@fondsrr.org
Rivoli Castle – Contemporary Art Museum
piazza Mafalda di Savoia, 10098 Rivoli (Torino) - T 011 9565213 F 011 9565232
In tune with the Museum’s mission, the Educational Department has promoted and spread contemporary art-related knowledge and culture since 1984.
The programme addresses schools, education, training and Institutions for cultural promotion, families and the general public. The methodological, conceptual and operative approaches refer to the inspiring principle: Educating to Art with Art, and is aimed at turning the viewer into the main actor. Encountering art, whether inside or outside the Museum, transforms knowledge into an authentic life experience. The countless activities, in line with national and international standards, stem from principles of Lifelong learning, Peer Education and full accessibility for those disabled people who are visually impaired, mentally deficient or have motor disorders. In particular, the unique research that was carried out with Turin’s ‘Istituto dei Sordi’ (Institute of the Deaf, TN) and Unicredit Group, allowed to realize the first ever dictionary that translates specific contemporary art language into the Italian language of signs.
The Educational Department has, thanks to its experimenting and researching activities, stressed the importance of art’s educational function in society, thereby obtaining both national and international acknowledgements and awards. In 2009 it was awarded the Minimum Prize by Cittadellarte.
http://www.castellodirivoli.org/ita/homepage/Homepage.htm
mail: educa@castellodirivoli.org
Merz Foundation
via Limone 24, 10141 Torino - T 011 19719437
The Foundation’s Educational Department sets up school-oriented educational paths aimed at investigating upon image and visual codes, with special attention for Mario Merz’s work and for contemporary art. Activities such as guided visits and workshops are aimed at pondering over the educational, emotional and formative values conveyed by exercising creativity.
http://fondazionemerz.org/it/dipartimento-educativo
mail: edu@fondazionemerz.org
PAV - Parco Arte Vivente (Living Art Park)
via Giordano Bruno 31, 10134 Torino - T 011 3182235
The Educational and Training Activities department works out and proposes laboratories, workshops and training programmes that are always related to the exhibited works and are aimed at favouring the comprehension and experimentation of these. The objective, in line with the concept of relationalism, is to give citizens a renewed impulse to active participation to cultural life by sensitizing the different audiences on environmental themes through the language of art. The activities that are addressed to schools or to those interested in continuous and permanent learning have been structured in specific and multidisciplinary fields of investigation: Creative Biology, Microglances, Hybridizations and Scapes, four areas of elaboration that allow to experiment the processes used by the artists that are featured in the permanent and temporary exhibits.
All laboratory proposals have been organized according to different age groups and are disabled-friendly.
http://www.parcoartevivente.it/pav/index.php?id=91
e-mail: lab@parcoartevivente.it


