Teenagers – Activities

This is not a workshop but a one-hour guided tour. By exploring the garments in the museum’s collections, visitors can examine their shapes, fabrics, colours and accessories, and link them to a particular fashion trend.

Using balls of clay and a few tools, each child shapes a wire frame into the form of a body. The modelling clay becomes flesh.
Please note: just as a sculptor rarely keeps this initial modelling stage, the finished piece will be destroyed at the end of the session.

How can movement be depicted?
Creating a flipbook allows you to animate a character by reworking certain ideas. 

By examining textile pieces from the museum’s collections and exploring samples through touch, sound and even smell, participants can discover the art of felt-making during the workshop.

From the former swimming pool to the current museum: site surveys, traces, materials, alterations, decoration… will help us understand what the building was and what it has become.

Only in the galleries.
Sight, touch, hearing and smell are engaged through the museum’s entire collection, the building itself, the sensory trail created by Christian Astuguevieille, and tools developed by the team of activity leaders.
No art-making takes place; the session consists solely of sensory experiences. The objectives are fourfold: to explore these four senses, to awaken them, to trigger sensations in response to the museum’s collections, and to develop a sensory vocabulary.

Creating a design using geometric shapes in screen printing allows you to experiment with compositions and colours and to screen print on a variety of substrates.

The animals in our collections—their postures, movements and physical characteristics—lead us to an imaginary X-ray that becomes a reality in the studio, drawing inspiration from animal mandibles, femurs, skulls and tibias. By combining these bones, we create imaginary breeds.

In cinemas only
The hygienist architectural concept of *La Piscine*, combined with the depiction in some of our works of the care given to the body, allows us to explore the notions of hygiene.

An arch, a vault, an opening; different planes, different lines, different proportions… Painting, sculpture and architecture come together to explore the concept of space. Starting with a systematic drawing, we arrive at a three-dimensional representation of space.

From the dyes used to issues relating to colour fixation and colour quality, the workshop explores resist techniques such as binding, the application of paraffin, stitching, folding and fabric compression…

From warping to weaving, via weaves and finishes… All these technical terms come together to create a woven piece in which various strips of fabric are combined with threads, cords, plant materials, paper… A creation where creativity and technique come together.

Seasonal activity: April to August.
Pressed ferns, sulphated vine leaves, preserved chlorophyll. A herbarium featuring foliage from our dye garden and our collection, with its surprising tannin content.
Come and join us for the harvest.

The subject, as well as the colours, composition and format, create the atmosphere of a work. One work, one atmosphere, one interpretation. A different word, a different atmosphere, a different interpretation.

Whatever the expression, our bodies display outward signs that convey a feeling or an emotion. In our workshops, expressions from the French language allow us to explore our imagination.

Rhythm can be created through composition, graphic design, colour, pattern, movement… and the creation of various sounds and sound effects allows these elements to be brought to life.

Secondary school
level: The body schema and how it is depicted in the works within the museum’s collections inspire us, in our workshops, to explore a range of poses in which we focus on proportions and articulation. 

Exclusively in the
Poseidon, Pan, Artemis, Amphitrite and Iphigenia theatres… each named after a story, a belief or a legend from ancient Greece.

Secondary school level: Through 19th- and
20th-century animal collections, students will observe, analyse and describe how the depiction of animals has evolved (species diversification, perspectives on animals, techniques used). In the workshop, students must first capture the attitude and movement of a given animal before rendering its coat.

Exclusively in theatres
: a different interpretation offering a fresh perspective on the work. Additional dimensions are brought to life through speech, writing, sound effects and drawing: the creation of a soundscape, exploration of variations in sound and the physicality of the written word… resulting in a new orchestration.

Secondary school level Through 19th- and 20th-century
animal collections, students will observe, analyse and describe how the depiction of animals has evolved (species diversity, perspectives on animals, techniques used). In the workshop, students must capture the posture and movement of a given animal before rendering its coat

Secondary school
level: Colours, combinations, monochromatic schemes, shades and contrasts provide an overview of the museum’s entire collection. In the workshop, the combination of several layers of paint using different materials and tools creates a variety of colourful atmospheres

The various techniques used by painters to create the illusion of three-dimensionality. Linear perspective with a central vanishing point is explored during the workshop.

A slab of damp clay for shaping a fish. Tools for embossing, stamping and scoring… to decorate it. Remove the fish from the clay, test the curves, and ensure it retains its shape without cracking as it dries.
Firing required: 20 euros

A biscuit egg to be coloured using various glazes or engobes, depending on the child’s age. Brush-painted designs add the finishing touch. An introduction to glazing that requires firing (20 euros).

Bust portraits, three-quarter-length portraits or full-length portraits, realistic portraits, symbolic portraits, the relationship between form and background… the rendering of facial features, combined with an understanding of proportions, results in a portrait set against a background.

Close the two halves of a plaster mould that has been lined with clay. Turn it out to remove the hollow clay animal, which has no head or tail. Finally, use your imagination to fill in the missing parts and create a unique sculpture. Firing recommended (20 euros).

Drawing on the museum’s collections, this activity encourages participants to explore different interpretations of the works through their titles, symbolism, colours and comparative analysis. Working from reproductions in their own workshops, participants challenge or reinterpret the works.

The impact of dimensions, formats and framing on the artwork. Starting with a given image, each participant creates a new scenario by experimenting with these three concepts.