These holidays from Monday 19 to Friday 23 September, the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) offers a varied agenda of activities to enjoy with the family. The proposal includes fun and recreational activities, workshops, exhibitions and guided tours to enjoy with the family.
National Museum of Visual Arts
The Museum located at Av. Tomas Giribaldi 2283, offers a workshop Pareidolia – Imagination at the service
of our restless gaze. To be held on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 at 3:00 p.m.
Proposal is inspired by the MNAV exhibition Fricciones Modernas (1950 – 1970) and is aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old. With a duration of 60 minutes. In addition, admission is free with prior inscription.
Museum of Decorative Arts
Located at 25 de Mayo 376, it presents: Exploring in the museum and guided tours for children on days
September 21, 22 and 23 at 3 p.m.
It will also have recreational activities on September 21, 22 and 23, throughout the day:
- Puzzles of pictorial works.
- Treasure hunt.
- Design of pictorial work for the museum.
The activities will be shared on the museum networks @mnav_uruguay.
Contemporary Art Space
It is located in Arenal Grande 1929 and offers:
- Museodetectives on September 21, 22 and 23, throughout the day. In addition to children’s playful activity that proposes to solve cases about the exhibitions and the historic building.
Photos of the activity will be shared on the networks tagging @eac.uy with the #MuseoDetectives
- Minecraft at the museum on September 21, 22 and 23 from 3 to 5 p.m.
Within the framework of the Museums, Art & Technologies program between the EAC, INAV and Ceilab – Ceibal, we propose three proposals, hand in hand with the mediation team:
Wednesday 21 | Larvamundis: From the work of the artist Virginia Buitrón (AR) Biomimesis, we imagine what the world of larvae will be like? What places do they travel, what shape do those places have? Sign up hereYo.
Thursday 22 | Architects: From the tour of the ex-prison building adapted to an exhibition space, we create other possible spaces and uses of the place. Would it be a museum, a city building, a ship, a castle? Sign up here.
Friday 23 | Avatar World: Based on the work of the artist Ana Aristimuño (UY) Legacy, we imagine
possible worlds inhabited by the characters created in the collective tapestry of the work. Where and how would they be, who live? Sign up here.
SODRE Adela Reta Auditorium in Andes corner Mercedes
It offers workshops from September 21 to 25 at 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., with free admission and 30 places, which will be distributed in order of arrival on the same day of the workshop and starting 30 minutes before the start. It is aimed at children between 5 and 11 years old with a duration of 60 minutes.
- Wednesday – 4 p.m. | origami workshop
- Thursday – 4 p.m. | accessories workshop
- Friday – 4 p.m. | puppet workshop
- 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 – 3 p.m. | Magic visits, with Matías Gómez. Tickets at Tickantel and ticket office. The price is $150 per person (pay from 3 years).
Gurvich-Museum
Located in Sarandí 524, it offers: Restorers at the Museum on Wednesday 21 from 3 to 4:30 p.m., for children from 7 years old. The activity is with cost and prior registration at [email protected] or 099 000 020.
National Museum of Natural History
At the Miguelete 1825 Headquarters, the Megaterio Exhibition, the first complete skull of a giant sloth found in our country, is offered on September 21, 22 and 23 from 1 to 7 p.m.
Recently there was the fabulous discovery of a complete skull of the largest of the giant sloths known to date, the Megaterium americanum, which lived approximately 16,000 years ago in South America.
DICYT
- Based in Miguelete 1825, it offers the itinerant exhibition 100 years of Darwin in Uruguay, on Tuesday 20 at 7:00 p.m., at the Mazzoni Museum, Maldonado.
Proposal in the framework of the celebrations for the 190th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s visit to Uruguay, designed to celebrate science, rediscover the importance of our country in world research and inspire new generations.
- Conversation «Teaching science in a challenging and inclusive context», on Friday 23rd at 9 am. This activity is carried out within the framework of the first Uruguayan Congress on STEM Education and the sixth Conference on Science. More information.
National Museum of Anthropology, Av. of the Instructions 948
- Once again it presents “Forbidden NOT to touch” and guided tours on September 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23 at 2:00 p.m. A proposal where you can see and touch tools such as spearheads, arrows and boleadoras, which are thousands of years old.
- Workshop “Journey to prehistory” on Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 at 3:00 p.m. How did the indigenous people of our territory paint and create their ornaments? Playful activity for children of all ages, with free admission.
National Cultural Center of Thirty-Three
Located in Pablo Zufrategui and Manuel Freire, the exhibition of the VIII Prize for Illustration is inaugurated. It will be open to the public until October 9, from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then continue touring the country.
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All activities require prior registration by calling 2916 93 60 from Monday to Friday between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., or by sending an email to [email protected].
- Offers in search of the past – Archeology Workshop, on Thursday 22nd at 11:00 and 15:00. You can be the protagonist of an archaeological excavation, look for objects from the past and investigate in the laboratory, working as a family team. The activity is for children from 4 years old, with a duration of 1:30 hours. Cost: $250.
- El Salvador mask workshop, Thursday 22 at 3:00 p.m. and Friday 23 at 11:00 a.m. As they go through the exhibition of masks, they will learn about their history, and they will end up creating a mask with different materials. It is an activity for children from 3 years old, lasting 1:30 hours. Cost: $250.
- Painting in Prehistory, on Wednesday 21 at 11 am. You will get to know the cave paintings while we experiment with the different expression techniques used by the Indigenous people in the past. Activity for children from 4 years old with a duration of 1:30 hours. Cost: $250.
- Textiles: threads, wool and colors, on Thursday 22 at 11 am and Friday 23 at 3 pm. Through a tour of the exhibition, they are invited to learn how wool, its colors and fabrics are created, in order to later create a piece. Activity for children from 7 years old, lasting 1:30 hours. Cost: $250.
- Pre-Columbian Dolls, on Wednesday 21 at 11:00 and 15:00. They invite you to learn more about the Chancay culture, and to make a doll inspired by their amazing creations. Activity for children from 7 years old, lasting 1:30 hours. Cost: $250.
- Puppets of Mesoamerica, Wednesday 21 at 3:00 p.m. and Friday 23 at 11:00 a.m. They invite you to tour the museum to learn how and with what indigenous children played; and build a puppet inspired by the tour. Activity for children from 7 to 12 years old. With a duration of 1:30 hours and a cost of $250.
- Through the worlds of Toto the Glyptodont, on Friday the 23rd at 3:00 p.m. They invite them to travel to the end of the Ice Age and meet the wonderful animals that lived at that time and also lived with people. Activity for children from 3 to 6 years old with a duration of 1:30 hours. Cost: $250 and with limited seats.
National Library of Uruguay, Av. July 18, 1790
It offers guided tours with readings of children’s stories, on Wednesday 21 at 11, 14 and 18 hours, Thursday 22 at 11 and 14 hours and Friday at 14 hours. Free activity and without prior registration.
National Directorate of Culture – Urban Program, Music Pavilion, Parque Rodó
It presents spring dancing, on September 24 at 3:00 p.m., with dance workshops and interventions by exponent groups of candombe, Andean dance, salsa, vogue, flamenco, tango, hip hop, plena,
contact, afro and community dance. The day will culminate with the presentation of Dj Cabocla live.
Free and free participation.
