Teachers
Teachers and pupils
The Musée du Luxembourg has chosen three programmes with themes linked to its history: “The Renaissance in Europe”, “Art and Power” and “Palace, Gardens and Museum: the Luxembourg in the heart of Paris, capital of the arts”. The exhibitions are thus intended to be part of a programme of educational projects for teaching the history of the arts.
There are two activities specially designed for school groups
- A guided tour of the exhibition (60mins)
- A guided tour+workshop: a tour of the exhibition and practical artistic activity (90mins
Réservation
La réservation est obligatoire et s’effectue uniquement sur le site Internet du musée (les frais Internet sont offerts).
Le nombre de participants par créneau réservé est 30 personnes, accompagnateurs inclus.
Pour une classe de plus de 30 élèves, veuillez réserver plusieurs horaires.
Si
vous souhaitez suivre une visite thématique, après avoir fait votre
réservation en ligne, merci d’envoyer un courriel à l’adresse suivante
pour préciser votre thème de visite : scolaires@museeduluxembourg.fr.
Guided tour with a museum guide (60mins)
Practical information
Bookings
Bookings are obligatory and must be made through the museum website (no online booking fee).
Maximum of 30 persons for each booking, including accompanying staff.
Groups over 30 must be divided into smaller groups, each with a booked slot.
After completing your online booking, please email scolaires@museeduluxembourg.fr to indicate the theme of your tour.
Times and Rates
Available on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 9.45am and 2.00pm.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the activity.
Prices include the lecture fee and hire of audiophones for the group, but not the entrance ticket:
Reduced rate for secondary schools: €105
Special rate for primary schools: € 55
Entrance tickets for the exhibition
are free for school children aged under 17, and for their group leaders (1
leader for every 7 pupils aged under 17).
Programme during the Lucas Cranach exhibition
In addition to a guided tour of the museum, there are themed tours. A work of art can be approached in a thousand different ways, and through historical and social issues that can provide many keys to an understanding of painting.
You can choose one of the following:
The World of Lucas Cranach tour, general tour of the exhibition
Or a themed tour on one of the following themes
Deciphering the world of Lucas Cranach
Symbolic meaning in the work of Lucas Cranach
Lucas Cranach: speaking out for Humanism
Painting: an expression of political and humanist thinking
Lucas Cranach and the Reformation
Lucas Cranach, painter of a new religion
Fates and Figures of women in the works of Lucas Cranach
The image of women in painting
Tour + workshop with a museum guide (90 mins)
These activities last 90 minutes and are in two parts: after a 40-minute tour on the chosen theme, there are 50 minutes for an art activity in the education room. Our educational activities are run by RMN guides, specialists in the history of art and skilled educators.
The decision to use tour guides instead of visual artists was made for educational reasons. The aim is to enable the children to use what they have learned during the tour through an activity that requires resources and creative abilities, and not to present them with a lecture in the visual arts. It therefore involves giving each child the tools for understanding the concepts of the history of art developed during the tour and enhancing their visual education through an approach that is both cognitive and sensitive by appealing to the imagination.
From our point of view, the artistic activities within the museum should aim to educate children visually and creatively. The proposed activities should enable children to find an echo of their own sensitivity in the works of art, contributing to a closer understanding of art. Approached in this way the artistic activity becomes a tool for knowledge, a means of learning and not a course on techniques in the visual arts. Play and imagination have in important place in these activities, as a knowledge and understanding of art is achieved above all through a feeling of wonder.
Practical information
Bookings
Bookings are obligatory and must be made through the museum website (no online booking fee).
Maximum of 30 persons for each booking, including accompanying staff.
Classes over 30 must be divided into smaller groups, each with a booked slot
After completing your online booking, please email scolaires@museeduluxembourg.fr to indicate the theme of your tour.
Times and Rates
Available on Mondays and Fridays between 9.45am and 2.30pm.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the activity.
Prices include the lecture fee and hire of audiophones for the group, but not the entrance ticket:
Reduced rate for secondary schools: €120
Special rate for primary schools: €70
Entrance tickets for the exhibition
are free for school children aged under 17, and for their group leaders (1
leader for every 7 pupils aged under 17).
Programme during the Lucas Cranach exhibition
From 9 April
Workshop: Fantastic Stories?
16 years and above
This workshop provides the keys to understanding the symbolic dimension of Lucas Cranach’s work. It reveals some of the great themes of Renaissance painting (religious and mythological themes, allegories) and to see how Lucas Cranach developed a symbolic vocabulary in order to present his chosen subjects and tell their stories.
Educational Objectives:
- Introducing Renaissance painting and themes
- Understanding the world of Lucas Cranach
- Learning about the composition of a work
- Learning to decipher the symbolic elements in a painting (accessories, poses, colours…)
- Understanding the symbolic and societal dimensions of the stories that appear in the paintings (theatrical presentation, historical scenarios in the story, metaphor, etc.)
Topics for discussion:
- Composition
- Choice of colours
- Symbols
- Imagery in art
Workshop: A work of art in black and white
8 years and above
This workshop focuses on two of the mediums Cranach used: painting and engraving. It enables us to decipher the strength of expression in the engraved works, and to consider, from a pictorial point of view, the question of line and colour in a work.
Educational objectives
- Introducing Renaissance painting and themes
- Understanding the world of Lucas Cranach
- Learning about the composition of a work
- Understanding the importance of line, drawing and light in a work
Topics for discussion:
- Composition
- Choice of colours
- Black and white, light in a work of art
- The line in drawing
- Imagery
in art
