A Summer Programme for Children and Adolescents

From the end of June until the beginning of September, the MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, will be the ideal place for spending quality time while being entertained and taught about art and creative expression. This will be combined with a camping adventure that will be the main topic of this year's Summer Programme intended for the young.

Do you know where to find shelter from the hot city asphalt? There is nothing easier: head for the Museum of Contemporary Art. From the end of June until the beginning of September, an attractive summer program for children between the ages of five and 15 will be held there. This year, the main topic of the programme, which is running for the third consecutive time, is a camping adventure. The programmes (workshops) will take place on Saturdays between 11 A.M. and 1 P.M. within and around the MSU building under the expert guidance of the museum’s curators and staff.

Workshop participants will first explore the surroundings of the museum and the leafy neighbourhoods of New Zagreb, which offer a plethora of visit-worthy places. Children will be given several tasks before they go on a scavenger hunt for dry twigs, blades of grass, flowers, pebbles and anything else they can find in nature that they will later learn to use in quirky creations. This will be followed by educational and creative programmes in mini MSU schools which will be held in a big and spacious white tent, keeping up with this year’s main theme.

The tent itself will provide an additional opportunity for creative expression and the participants will be encouraged to decorate it, paint on it and leave traces of their camping experience in nature and in the city. The “camp site” decoration activities will show the participants how to be creative; they will learn that all it takes is a little effort and a few good ideas to create new values and give a new lease of life to seemingly discarded objects. The participants can also look forward to guided tours of the exhibitions in the museum from which they will emerge additionally armed with new knowledge about life and art.

The workshops are free of charge.