ADVENTURE IN THE TREASURY

A challenging task awaits enterprising investigators in the Bishop’s Treasury: using secret codes, audio recordings and maps, they will set out on the trail of the hidden treasure chest and the treasures that have mysteriously disappeared. During the game, participants can get acquainted with the objects kept in the Bishop’s Treasury, and then fill the empty treasure chest with the help of countless fun and thought-provoking tasks.

• Age group: 8-14 years
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some sessions may require group division, the details of which will be provided upon registration.

FROM DICE TO DICE: “COMIC BOOKS” IN THE CATHEDRAL OF PÉCS

The activity is based on the similarities between comic books and cathedral imagery. This parallel facilitates the absorption of biblical stories and the interpretation of stories depicted in other works of art.

In the activity, we talk about the “predecessors” of comics: we discuss how a comic book is constructed, we observe the genre characteristics of comics on reproductions of works of art, and we deepen the knowledge thus acquired with the help of playful tasks. Finally, the children also draw short comic strips from some biblical stories.

• Age group: 10-16 years
• Duration: 60-90 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Price of the activity: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some activities may require group division, details of which will be provided upon registration.

A “GREAT” DAY – an adventure in Pécs during the Dualism era

During the activity, children can playfully learn about the consecration of the cathedral in 1891 and the festive events surrounding it (Emperor Franz Joseph’s visit to Pécs). With the help of contemporary newspaper articles and an artwork from the Treasury, they can gain insight into the social relations, cultural and religious life of the Dualism era.

• Age group: 12-16 years
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some sessions may require group division, details of which will be provided upon registration.

SHIMMERING LIGHTS, FLASHING COLORS – Let’s make friends with Baroque painting!

During the session, with the help of Baroque paintings in the Treasury (including P.A. Senser’s monumental work, The Miraculous Multiplication of Bread), we will learn about the characteristics of Baroque painting in a playful and interactive way, and then the children can take part in a special and entertaining creative work.

• Age group: 10-16 years
• Duration: approx. 90 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Price of the session: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some sessions may require group division, the details of which will be provided upon registration.

IS AN OSTRICH EGG AN ODD ONE OUT? – an interactive, playful introduction to the museum

With the help of the Treasury exhibition, the session seeks to clarify such fundamental questions as “What is a museum?” “Why is it needed?” “How and why did museums come into being?” “What can go into a museum?” and “Who works in such an institution, and what is their job?”.

At the beginning of the session, the children are introduced to one of the most unusual objects in the exhibition, the ostrich egg. The younger ones come up with the “story” of the egg together, while the older ones work on the object in four groups (museologists, curators, exhibition designers/directors and marketers) through a role-play.

After this, we talk about the “ancestors” of museums, then the younger ones (8-11 years old) make their own little “miracle chamber” out of paper boxes, which they can take home and collect and store their treasures in, while the older ones (12-15 years old) make the class treasure chest together.

• Age group: 8-10 years old and 11-15 years old
• Duration: approx. 90-120 minutes, 90 minutes for 12-15 year olds
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Price of the activity: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some activities may require group division, details of which will be provided upon registration.

WALL DECOR OR GRAFFITI – or what do the decorations of the Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (mosque) reveal?

The Downtown Candlemas Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the former Gázi Kászim Pasha Mosque) offers the unique opportunity for visiting children to become familiar with the characteristics of Christian and Islamic church decoration and sacred art during the conquest period. At the beginning of the activity, the children build models, and then we compare the church’s former and present-day furnishings and decorations with the help of computer reconstructions. We will talk in detail about calligraphy, which plays an important role in both Islamic and Christian decorative arts, and then in the craft workshop, each child can design their own calligraphic monogram.

• Age group: 11-15 years
• Duration: approx. 90 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some sessions may require group division, the details of which will be provided upon registration.

Capernaum adventures, or how can we help well? – experiential pedagogical session

During the exciting experiential pedagogical session, participants find themselves faced with an emergency situation that requires a creative solution. Through this situation, they can experience what it feels like to help those in need, and what it feels like to be helped. The session is followed by a discussion, during which we process and deepen the experiences we have had together. We recommend it for preparing for school community service, for sensitizing for it, and for team building.

• Age group: 14-18 years
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury (but can also be held at another location)
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups over 25 people, some sessions may require group division, details of which will be provided during registration.

Stories from the Secret Passage

During the session, participants will take on roles and get acquainted with the exhibition presenting the period of communist persecution of the church, which is located in the cellar system opening from the Bishop’s Palace. Then, they will process the information they have acquired in groups using creative tasks.

• Age group: from grade 8 onwards
• Duration: 120 minutes
• Location: Magtár Visitor Center (Small Cellar), Bishop’s Treasury
• Court price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some sessions may require group division, the details of which will be provided during registration.

In the footsteps of the first Pécs Cathedral

Where could the first Pécs Cathedral have stood and what might it have been like? During the session, participants can get answers to this and many other questions concerning the history of the cathedral. In the meantime, they themselves become “church builders” and then visit one of the cathedral’s towers.

• Age group: from 12 years old
• Duration: approx. 60 minutes
• Location: Bishop’s Treasury, Cathedral
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups of more than 25 people, some classes may require group division, details of which will be provided upon registration.

Forgery? Copying? Reconstruction?

During the class, we explore the exciting issue of art forgery in connection with the unique, medieval reliefs of the crypt of the Pécs Cathedral. We will view the original and the works reconstructed at the end of the 19th century, and we will hold a discussion on the issues of originality, forgery, copying, and re-creation.

• Age group: from grade 7 onwards
• Duration: 90 minutes
• Location: Cathedral Lapidarium
• Course price: 1,800 HUF/person

For groups over 25 people, some classes may require group division, details of which will be provided upon registration.

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