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Regular programmes for kids

Capacity: max. 15 crianças
Price: 7€ / child
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Science workshop: Toy Solar Cars
Saturdays: 11.30 Tickets

Science workshop: Don’t Wake Up the Dragon
Sundays: 11.30 Tickets

Science workshop: The Magic of Electromagnets
Sundays: 16.00 Tickets

Art and robotics workshop: Artbot
Second Saturday of every month: 16.00 (with Humberto Neves) Tickets

Workshop for the climate emergency: Eco-Warriors
Third Saturday of every month: 16.00 (with Patrícia Trindade)
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Art workshop: Discovering maat
Fourth Saturday of every month: 16.00 (with Renato Santos)
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Birthday workshops for kids

Dates: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Sunday of the month
Times: by booking, from 10.00-13.00 or from 15.00-18.00.
Duration: 3h
Venue: maat educational centre
Target audience: children from 4 to 12 years old
Capacity: min. 10 | max. 16 participants
Language: Portuguese
Price: €12 per child | €9 maat members | birthday boy/girl does not pay

Available workshops

(more information below)

Art and robotics workshop: Artbot
children from 4 to 6 years old

Art workshop: Discovering maat
children from 4 to 6 years old

Visual arts workshop: Check-maat
children from 7 to 12 years old

More information

Science: Toy Solar Cars

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No driving licence? No problem! Can sunlight be transformed into movement? In this workshop, come and build a solar-powered car and drive it in a thrilling race. Who will make the best car and win the challenge? We dare you to try! + 6 years old

  • Every Saturday, 11.30–12.30. Tickets

Science: Don’t Wake Up the Dragon

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A sleeping dragon awaits your visit. Will you manage to walk past him without waking him up? In this workshop, come play and learn about electrical energy. Using wires, screws and screwdrivers, you will get to build a simple electric circuit. Then you will test it in a challenge of skill and concentration to avoid waking up the dragon!

  • Every Sunday, 11.30–12.30. Tickets

Science: The Magic of Electromagnets

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What is an electromagnet? Is it a magic trick? Or does it have a scientific explanation?Find out what an electromagnet is, how it is built and what's useful for. At the end of the activity, your knowledge is tested in a very fun game.

  • Every Sunday, 16.00–17.00. Tickets

Art and Robotics: Artbot

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Inspired by the museum exhibitions, we will explore the role of robotics in contemporary art.
In the initial visit to an exhibition at the museum, we will find the inspiration to create, build, and program an artist machine. What will it draw? How will we program it? What if, together, we make it draw?
Plastic arts and robotics workshop with an educational purpose and a strong playful component, in which we propose that participants carry out a creative exercise that starts by looking at, questioning, talking, arguing about, and interpreting the works of art exhibited in the museum.
Ages: 7–13 years.
Also available for birthdays. Inquire

  • Second Saturday of every month: 16.00–18.00. Tickets

Ecology: Eco-Warriors 

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Our actions, the way we live, our day-to-day decisions are also a way to trigger change worldwide. The maat is a museum that aims to spark the debate on climate and ecology issues. This is a workshop to think and talk about the preservation of our planet, discover our causes and take action. Facing challenges proposed in the different exhibitions of the Museum, we will activate our ideas through the visual arts.
With: Patrícia Trindade.
Ages: 7–13 years.
Duration: 120 minutes.
Also suitable for teachers: version with work dynamics and methologies.

  • Third Saturday of every month: 16.00–18.00. Tickets

Art: Discover maat

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Embark on a real adventure to discover the museum. We will find new and old worlds, with fresh ideas to explore. Take part in this paper chase and solve mysteries and challenges as you search for your party's secret place! At the end, create a big map of this museum adventure with the help of all your guests.
Plastic arts workshop with an educational purpose and a strong playful component, in which we propose that participants carry out a creative exercise that starts by looking at, questioning, talking, arguing about, and interpreting the works of art exhibited in the museum.
Also available for birthdays. Inquire

  • Fourth Saturday of every month: 16.00–18.00. Tickets

Science: How Strong Is a Balloon?

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Can you believe a balloon has the energy to drive a car? Come and learn how to build a car with common materials and you'll see how much power a simple balloon can have.

Science: Who Knows Mechanics?

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This is a workshop that requires skill, attention to detail and teamwork. In the museum, the group is challenged to discover and solve a mechanical breakdown in order to get a car running. This activity includes a visit to the Power Station Circuit, which shows the history of the Central Tejo.
Duration: 90 minutes
Admission: €12 / person. 

Visual arts: Check-maat

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Checkmate is the final move in a chess game, but here it's just the beginning of a fun party!
Today is your day and you will be the king or queen on our big chess board, but where have the pieces gone?
Starting with ideas from the exhibition, we will design and build themed pieces for our game. When all the pieces have taken their place, the white pieces can proceed.
Plastic arts workshop with an educational purpose and a strong playful component, in which we propose that participants carry out a creative exercise that starts by looking at, questioning, talking, arguing about, and interpreting the works of art exhibited in the museum.
Available for birthdays. Inquire

#museumforall - A Museum for Everyone

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Special educational needs programme
maat offers an integrated programme of creative activities aimed at people with physical and/or mental disabilities. Using the exhibitions on show as a starting point, these creative activities explore both the museum space and the workshop aspect, with the purpose of finding personal answers and creating spaces for dialogue, experimentation and sharing, in the hope that therapeutic benefits can be achieved as a group and felt by each of the participants.

Atlas of Self  
Starting from the transversality of languages and the creative universes of contemporary artists, this tour-workshop challenges participants to explore the maat environments. Using different artistic expressions, from drawing to painting, from photography to video, from body expression to artistic installation. 
The set of actions to be taken may vary according to the specific characteristics of the public, also focused on mixed classes, included in integrated education. 

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