The Riva del Garda Museum, in collaboration with the cooperative ‘La Coccinella’, has created a space dedicated to families: INvento is a new section/itinerary which provides children with a new experience of the museum space, one which is both fun and educational.

The Picture Gallery space has been enhanced with an educational area featuring various creative experiences that children may interact with, either with their parents or on their own.

From June 2011, the Museum will offer a new permanent space, available to all visitors, both grown-ups and kids, featuring artistic games, books and soft zones.

INvento is also a series of initiatives aimed at families, designed to stimulate the creativity of children and adults alike. Special events will be organised to coincide with new exhibitions, cultural days and other occasions, with the aim of making the Museum known to its younger visitors as a lively, interesting place, full of stimuli.

Saturday 9^th April 2011

Times: 3.30pm – 5.00pm

Io abito qui (“I live here”)

The Paper Lake. The Garda territory as shown in historical cartography (14^th – 19^th centuries)

A kit consisting of card and various tools you can use to build a miniature model of your own house. A representation of children’s living spaces, seen through their own emotions and both their individual and collective living experiences. The final result will be a “distracted portrait” of their own town or neighbourhood, meeting places, relationships and friendships.

Sunday 17^th April 2011

Times 10.30am – 12.00pm

paeSAGGIO (The Changing Landscape)

The Paper Lake. The Garda territory as shown in historical cartography (14^th – 19^th centuries)

This workshop proposes the composition of fantastical and ‘mutating’ landscapes based on new forms of perception. A simple game of overlapping parts is the basis on which to create amazing compositions and unusual landscapes made up of changing images.

Parents will be offered an aperitif at the Mastio, the main tower of the Rocca.

Saturday 23^rd April 2011

Times: 3.30pm – 5.00pm

Gira il vento (When the Wind Blows)

Spring, with its colours and scents will be the source of inspiration for our younger visitors to create their own personal work in motion. Light and transparency, wind and air will be the essential ingredients to bring to life this simple and much-loved toy: the paper windmill.

Sunday 1^st May 2011

Times 10.30am – 12.00pm

Foglie al vento (Leaves in the Wind)

Observing the leaves and attempting to capture their shapes and lines, charming wind vanes will be built with tiny natural fragments and other materials. Little mobile sculptures, transparent and lightweight, to hang or to fly wherever you like.

Parents will be offered an aperitif at the Mastio, the main tower of the Rocca.

Sunday 15^th May 2011

Times 10.30am – 12.00pm

I mondi belli (The Beautiful Worlds)

From the exploration of materials and their characteristics to the creation of tiny worlds in a box, magical transparent compositions, evanescent landscapes, future cityscapes, light and airy constructions made of rubber, plastic and other transparent materials designed to capture light and the shapes that dreams are made of…

Parents will be offered an aperitif at the Mastio, the main tower of the Rocca.

Saturday 21^st May 2011

Times 10.30am – 12.00pm

A caccia di segni (Sign Hunting)

Equipped with coloured sheets and various tools, we shall take a short walk in the Park of the Rocca in search of various surfaces, both natural and artificial, in order to capture their ‘skin’ or outer essence. With our findings, we shall attempt to create a range of compositions imitating, for example, fields of corn, stormy skies or purely abstract images.

Sunday 29^th May 2011

Times 10.30am – 12.00pm

Storie in scatola (Stories in a Box)

Listening to a story is a bit like making it up all over again, and that is the aim here. The story-telling sessions with enchant every little participant, involving him/her in the creation of a box-book full of characters and settings capable of giving rise to different stories every time.

Parents will be offered an aperitif at the Mastio, the main tower of the Rocca.

Thursday 2^nd June 2011

Times 3.30pm – 5.00pm

INvento

Opening of the INvento space/itinerary

A playful meeting designed to present the new section of the Museum Picture Gallery.

Equipped with the suitable investigational tools, we shall set out on a journey to discover the works and masterpieces held in the ancient rooms of the Museum, just like real explorers in search of treasure.

Age group: 5 to 11 years old

Each workshop may be attended by up to a maximum of 15 participants.

Booking is preferable for all workshops.

Information and Bookings

Riva del Garda Museum

piazza C. Battisti, 3/A

38066 Riva del Garda

Tel: +39 0464 573869

Fax: +39 0464 573868

email: museo@comune.rivadelgarda.tn.it

website: www.comune.rivadelgarda.tn.it

Museum Opening Times

10.00am – 12.30pm / 1.30pm – 6.00pm

Closed on Mondays