Educational Activities
Even this year, the Augustinian Convent Museum in Certaldo has developed an integrated educational proposal between school and museum, to enrich and enhance the school programming of past years, starting with cultural heritage.
Each individual proposal foresees the active involvement of students, to allow them an educational experience in contact with the works of art housed in our museum in order to understand them, through telling stories and playful moments, themes, languages, materials and technique.
There is no shortage of proposals to illustrate the history and culture of the territory where the students reside, with greater focus on Certaldo and neighbouring municipalities.
The activity will be calibrated according to the age of the participants and the teachers’ requests for more in-depth information. For spring activities, the possibility of a packed lunch is offered in the museum garden.
Teaching proposal kindergarten, primary and secondary schools – school year 2024/2025
organised by Alice Chiostrini, Barbara Latini and Patrizia Pepe of Cooperativa Girasole.
From the castle to the Via Francigena: the pilgrim Goffredo's journey
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth Universal Jubilee of 2025, an educational itinerary is proposed that includes an itinerant guided tour of the village of Certaldo Alto, to discover the function of the buildings and structures of the medieval castle, which hosted pilgrims and wayfarers on their way to the Via Francigena to reach Rome and even to Jerusalem.
The visit is accompanied by illustrations of historical maps and game cards that make up a lively treasure hunt. Who knows whether you will make the acquaintance of a funny character out of time along the way.
Admission to the monumental complex of the Augustinian Convent Museum is included, without a guided tour to the collections.
- Target audience: kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
- Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes
- Equipment: game cards, illustrated historical map, treasure hunt final prize, stationery
- Cost: currently the path is not yet active
Board, plaster and gold leaf, you will come up with a masterpiece!
The Augustinian Convent Museum houses a rich collection of paintings executed with the
technique of painting on wood, with egg tempera and gold leaf. This technique with its brilliant effect and centuries of endurance has made the fortune of Italian painting in the world!
The educational tour takes place in two sections:
- guided tour of the museum collection, focusing on tempera paintings on panel, and
demonstration of the technique, through the illustration of the materials of the artist’s workshop: poplar boards, powdered colours powder, egg, chalk, gold leaf; - personalised realisation of a painting on a plaster board with application of tempera and gilded sheets (simplified technique).
- Target audience: kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
- Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes
- Equipment: plasterboards, tempera colours, glue, gilded sheets, stationery
- Cost: currently the path is not yet active
Knights and princesses, dragons and jewellery
The paintings in the Augustinian Convent Museum depict curious characters: toddling children, nimble goldfinches, white doves and cunning piglets. Crowned princesses and sleeping dragons are the protagonists of stories to be told.
The educational tour is divided into two sections:
- division into small teams, which are given game cards, depicting some curious details from the paintings;
- storytelling concerning the details discovered in the painting on the game card
- Target audience: kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
- Duration: 2 hours and 50 minutes
- Equipment: game cards, stationery
- Cost: currently the path is not yet active