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Artisan for a day is coming back to Explora, an initiative by Autostrade per l’Italia for children and their parents to discover the importance of manual skills and get to know old trades.

On weekends of November 16th-17th, 23rd-24th, November 30th and December 1st children, aged from 6 to 12 years, led by expert artisans will take on old trades and tinker their way to new creations. The workshops will teach them how to use tools and materials, help them to discover the tricks of the old trades and learn traditional techniques while watching artisans making their handcrafted pieces.

Each weekend is dedicated to a different trade:

November 16th-17th – The first weekend will be dedicated to letterpress printing using movable type, inks, proof presses and historical printing presses at the Betterpress Lab school of art by Francesca Colonia and Giulia Nicolai.

Betterpress Lab is an independent workshop based in Rome, printing with traditional movable type and producing fine art letterpress and decoration products. Francesca (a degree in Decoration at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome) and Giulia (a degree in Classical Philology at the Sapienza University of Rome) have joined their skills and passions to develop a project focusing on the language of words and images, based on reviving tools and knowledge of traditional manual typesetting.

November 23rd-24th – The second weekend will be dedicated to the trade of “woodworker”. Children will create wooden frames using traditional woodworking tools and techniques together with the Mook artists by Francesca Crisafulli and Carlo Nannetti.

Mook is a joint project by Carlo Nannetti and Francesca Crisafulli. They both live and work in Rome where they took their degrees, and are teachers at the European Institute of Design. Their artistic activities range from sculpture to graphic arts, from illustration to design, including workshop building for children on art and recycling. Mook creates and produces objects using recycled materials, unique pieces from picking up and assembling “dumped off time” material.

November 30th-December 1st – The third weekend will be dedicated to “The artisan of time”. The artisans of time from the Bottega Polvere di Tempo by Adrian Rodriguez Cozzani will create a real hourglass using recycled objects and sand.

Polvere di Tempo was born out of a passion for craftsmanship and the construction of ancient timekeeping devices. The workshop is focused on portable sundials and hourglasses, an unusual yet greatly fascinating subject. Now the workshop produces compasses, globes, maps and the likes.

Come to Explora and have a nice journey with “Autostrade per l’Italia” into trades and traditions, using technique and creativity.

Thanks to Autostrade per l’Italia

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Age Group: 6-12 years
When: November 16th-17th, 23rd-24th, November 30th and December 1st at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm.
How to attend: Tickets include access to workshops which are to be booked in the Museum. Booking is required for admission to the museum only, and should be made online on the website.
Duration: 40 minutes.

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What are you doing for Halloween? Spend the scariest holiday of the year at the Explora Museum: four days full of fun, creative and playful activities.

From October 31st to November 3th, age-group workshops will take place at each timed visits:

Age Group: 3-11 years
When: October 31st at 03:00 pm and 5:00 pm; November 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 03:00 pm, 05:00 pm
How to attend workshops in the pavilion: tickets include access to workshops and are limited; to be booked in the Museum within the first 30 minutes after visit starts. Booking is required for admission to the museum, online or calling number +39 (0)6 3613776. If you purchase your tickets online, you are admitted to the museum without queuing at the ticket office. biglietteria.
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In addition, on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd:  Officina in cucina- What pasta are you?, the Explora workshop, set up in an area outside the exhibit pavilion where children can learn about new ingredients in a real kitchen and challenge their skills among ovens, tables and lots of odd tools to make the perfect recipe and prepare tasty wholemeal dumplings.

Officina in cucina, Cooking Lab
Age: 5-11 years
How to attend workshops in the Cooking Lab space: Activity to be bought online.
When: November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, at 10:45 am and 03:45 pm. 
Buy now your Officina in Cucina workshop

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2019 Springtime at the Explora Museum offers a plethora of events to spend your holidays having fun and making discoveries.

While waiting for the holidays, why not to attend the weekend workshops on April 6th-7th and 13th-14th: 

Will you be in Rome on the Easter bank holidays? Come and have fun at the Museum! 
From April 18th to 28th springtime workshops are available to visitors on the four timed visits (10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 03:00 pm and 05:00 pm):

Walking around a farm park – for children aged 3-5 years, the art craft workshop to learn how to decorate DIY toys creatively.  

Valuable Plastic – for children aged 6-11 years, an interactive exhibit workshop, Valuable Plastic, to learn how to collect, re-use, recycle and make new objects from plastic packaging, unveiling the secrets of plastic and learning how to recycle consciously.

Age Groups: 3-5 years and 6-11 years
When: April 6th-7th and 13th-14th and from April 18th to 28th at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 03:00 pm and 05:00 pm. 
The Museum is open on April 21st and 25th (Easter and Liberation Day), and closed on April 22nd.
How to attend: tickets include access to workshops and are limited, to be booked in the Museum within the first 30 minutes after visit starts.

Are schools closed on holidays? Spend a whole day at the Museum, choose the Camp! 
Taking place on April 18th-19th, 23rd, 24th*, 26th*, 29th* e 30th*, the Explora Camp is a fully immersive experience of innovation, experimentation, science, arts and nature which allows to learn and understand in a different way and stimulates creativity and curiosity. (*minimum number required)
Go to the Camp page

On weekends and holidays add to your visit the Courgette cookies workshop, the last event at Officina in cucina, the Cooking Lab – Recipes from the garden: the activities are offered in a real kitchen where to take a healthy and tasty snack out of the oven.
Go to the  Officina in Cucina page

Create, glue, tie, decorate: on sale at the Explora bookshop the Easter Egg Kit, assembled in the Made in Explora space, a teaching aid to make learning easy and decorate Easter trees creatively. 

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Celebrate Carnival at the Museum: on schedule from February 23rd some workshops to live the funniest time of the year together! 

For children aged 3 to 5 years: the Carnival grimaces workshop to learn in a creative and dynamic way what some very curious animals eat. 

For children aged 6 to 11 years: the Masks Made in Explora workshop, to make a mask in the new space where children can use dies, stamps and customise their creations in the maker style. By attending the workshop, children can discover the new space Made in Explora, which was created to give a new life to the traditional letterpress printing through the technological approach of tinkering and making,which allow children to learn, through intuition and play, STEAM (Science, Technology Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) subject matters.

In addition,  Officina in Cucina will offer Recipes from the garden – Pea cake, the event featuring the recipes to celebrate the Explora vegetable gardens, part of the GARDENStoGROW, Urban Horticulture for Innovative and Inclusive Early Childhood Education project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Cooking workshops will also be available for younger children aged 3 to 5 years!
Cooking courses for little chefs aged 3-5 years take place in the morning, from 10:45 am; for children aged 6-11 years in the afternoon, from 03:45 pm. The would-be chefs will be given the task of making soft soufflés rich in vitamins, proteins and minerals and learn how to make tasty half balls out of seeds.

Age Groups: 3-11 years 
Where:
workshops: February 23rd-24th and March 2nd-3rd at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 03:00 pm and 05:00 pm, February 28th and March 5th at 03:00 pm and 05:00 pm. 
Officina in Cucina (Cooking Lab) February 23rd-24th and March 2nd-3rd for children aged 3-5 years at 10:45 am and for children aged 6-11 years at 03:45 pm. 

How to attend: 
workshops: tickets include access to workshops, however the number of participants is limited; workshops should be booked in the Museum within the first 30 minutes after your visit starts.
Officina in Cucina (Cooking Lab) Activity to be bought online. BUY

Coming back to the Museum is Artisan for a day, an initiative by Autostrade per l’Italia that will engage children and their parents in activities related to old trades and traditions, making them rediscover the importance of manual skills.

Led by expert artisans, children aged from 6 to 12 years will take on old trades and tinker their way to new creations. The workshops offered at the Museum will teach them how to use tools and materials, help them discover the tricks of the old trades and learn traditional techniques.

Come to Explora and have a nice journey with “Autostrade per l’Italia” into trades and traditions, using techniques and creativity

Thanks to Autostrade per l’Italia

Age: 6-12 years
When: January 12th-13th, 1th-20th, 26th-27th, at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
Booking: required to be admitted to the museum.
Duration: 40 minutes.
Information: ticket price includes admission to workshop. Booking is required for admission to the museum only, and should be made online on the website.

Each weekend is dedicated to a different trade:

January 12th and 13th The first weekend will be dedicated to the art of “mosaic” to rediscover the old art of the Muses and try to make a small mosaic with the help of the mosaic teachers from the Art Studio Café of Rome.  Alessandra Savelli and the Art Studio Café In the heart of Saint Peter’s, at a stone’s throw from the Vatican, it represents a major point of reference for all enthusiasts and professionals of arts: with the long-standing school of mosaic, the Savelli family has been cultivating the art of the Muses for generations with professionalism and the mastery of the art by professor Maria Teresa Vacchini and other mosaic teachers.  See the photos    January 19th and 20th The second weekend will be dedicated to the trade of the “woodworker”, with Leo Pallotta. Children will create a toy and will have the chance to find out the secrets of woodworking and its tools by watching gestures, materials, and tools that make this years-long tradition really unique. Leo Matteo P.Pallotta  He was born in London and specialises in design and exhibit installation, and designs and builds educational museum exhibits. He works wood, metal, and resins and is able to shape materials into objects for everyday use, which are also suitable for young children. His philosophy is to bring about the pleasure to create with your own hands; a real mission for him, who follows up the whole process, from concept to final product. See the photos   January 26th and 27th The third weekend will be spent with “weaver” Roberta Denni from Manufatturerranti; children will explore the main aspects of weaving and will create a small tapestry using the old technique of “weft weaving”. Roberta Denni and Manifatturerranti She’s been weaving on an old Piedmontese loom for many years and she’s permanently trained by a weaving and yarn-making master in Saint Antioco (Sardinia). She has developed Manifatturerranti, an artisanal weaving project which was started in Rome out of a desire to know and share weaving skills with people from different cultural backgrounds and places.   See the photos

Celebrate the International Children’s Day at Explora:  “I learn, express myself and become a Creative Maker” will take place on Sunday, November 18^th, a free-admission event for all children, as part of the CREATIVE MAKERS project: kids’ fablabs for letterpress & printing inspired by tinkering and making (CREAM), co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Age groups for workshops: 3-11 years
When: Sunday, November 18th, 2018, from 10:00 am to 07:00 pm
How to attend: free admission for children (accompanying adults will be charged admission)
Booking is required from the website until all seats are taken.
Tickets must be collected within the first 15 minutes after visit starts, otherwise your booking will expire.

In order to attend the workshops offered in the pavilion, you can book your ticket within 30 minutes prior to your entry time.  

PHOTOS AND VIDEO RECORDINGS WILL BE TAKEN DURING THE EVENT. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY WITH IT, PLEASE INFORM THE EXPLORA STAFF.

Sow, grow and cook: On October 6^th, come to Explora and attend the free-of-charge launch event for the GARDENStoGROW Urban Horticulture for Innovative and Inclusive Early Childhood Education project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, which aims at setting up educational vegetable gardens and training courses for teachers and school managers.

OFFICINA IN CUCINA (Cooking Lab)
To be booked:
Officina for children aged 3-5 years at 10:30 am and 03:30 pm
Officina for children aged 6-11 years at 12:30 pm and 05:30 pm

The Cooking Lab space will host Recipes from the garden – Carrot cake, a free activity that opens up the season of Officina in Cucina with new recipes based on vegetables.
Great news for the 2018-19 year: the Officina in Cucina (Cooking Lab) workshops will be also available for younger children, aged 3 to 5 years.

WORKSHOPS IN THE GARDEN
(to be booked, at 11:15 am, 12:15 pm, 03:15 pm and 04:15 pm)

– Paper and Seeds – workshop (3-5 years)
To get children familiar with the wonderful world of seeds. Sustainability, respect for the environment and creativity are the keywords of an outdoor activity conceived as a real paper-recycling plant, where children can make a sheet of paper full of seeds.

– Grow your future – Workshop (6-11 years)
Children will be projected towards the new frontiers of hydroponic growing. Building a hydroponic mini system is fun and educational, for its waste-reducing property in terms of water and nutrients and its mild impact on the environment.

Find out more on the  GARDENStoGROW project 

When: October 6th, 2018
Age group: 3-11 years
How to attend: free activities in the Explora’s outdoor area and in the Officina in Cucina (Cooking Lab) space Booking is required.