Saturday, 8th October, Excursion Day

Get unique insights to the top museums of Aarhus

In 2017 Aarhus was the European Capital of Culture. On Saturday you will have the unique possibility to get an expert tour through Aarhus most outstanding museums and a view behind the scenes. Meet Aarhus colleagues and their work and programme. 

 

You can choose up to two institutions. 

 

Aros - Aarhus Art Museum

Den Gamle By - The Old Town Museum

Museum KØN - Aarhus Gender Museum 

Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus - Natural History Museum Aarhus

Meet the experts! 

 

Program: 

 

10:00 - 12:00 Museum tour 1

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch break & transport

13:30 - 15:30 Museum tour 2

 

ONLINE REGISTRATION HERE

 

 

Aros - Aarhus Art Museum

Meet Jacob Bødskov, Responsible of learning program 

With a total of 20,700 square meters in our ten-story house, ARoS is one of the largest Art museums in Northern Europe. Each year, ARoS has roughly around one million visitors, making it the most frequented art museum in Scandinavia.

Join us for a guided tour focusing on highlights in our current exhibitions. Our curators and responsible of learning program will give insights in exhibition program and planning, and school program. Afterward you will be joined by a guide showing some of the highlights and hidden treasures at ARoS.

50 tickets 

 

Den Gamle By - The Old Town Museum

Meet Marianne Bager, Head of Education, and Birgitte Damkjer, Educator

Den Gamle By (The Old Town) is a national open-air museum of urban history and culture in Denmark through three centuries. The museum consists of more than 75 historic houses relocated from all over Denmark.

During the 2-hour visit you will meet an educator from the Education Department of the museum who will show and tell you about the museum and the way we teach school children history in an interactive and engaging way build upon theories of practical-aesthetic learning.

You can read more about this method here

70 tickets

 

Museum KØN - Aarhus Gender Museum

Meet Pernille Albrecht, Head of Education 

KØN is a cultural history museum about gender and equality. The museum wants to create curiosity, dialogue, reflection and knowledge about gender, equality and diversity - historically, currently and in the future. In recent years we have developed an activist, dialogue-based and norm-critical sex education in the museum's exhibitions. This has resulted in the two sex education concepts "BODY" and "SEX". These are the concepts we would like to present to you. In the workshop you will be introduced to the eight teaching principles that form the basis of sex education at KØN, and you will also get to try out some of the concepts yourself. Afterwards we will talk about what to keep in mind when developing sex education in a museum. How can the museum space and cultural history objects support conversations about taboo topics like gender, body and sexuality, and what pitfalls can you encounter?

70 tickets

 

Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus - Natural History Museum Aarhus

Meet Lea Pedersen, Educator for Children & Youth

The Natural History Museum Arhus is a 101-year-old institution in the middle of the city. With a long history of collection and research, the museum aims to share the big, exciting, and surprising stories of the world. Many people remember visiting as children, only to bring their own children later in life; the museum has deep roots in the Aarhus-consciousness. As such, the museum not only aims to look back at the histry of natural science, but also to look forward, through the perspective of future researchers and scientists, to ask questions and explore paths relevant to their daily lives. 

The tour will take you through our most recent exhibition about DRAGONS - and we will explore this subject works in a Natural History and Science context - especially within the theme of enjoyment. We will also look at the exhibitions, The Global Backyard, and the Africa-Exhibition, to experience how the collection of animals and exploration of the world around us, affect the story we tell at the museum. 

20 tickets

 

ONLINE REGISTRATION HERE

 

Contact: ceca.europe@moesgaardmuseum.dk