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Art

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Storytelling meters
Based on the Storytelling Meters exhibition, we propose a set of activities that go through episodes of this story that takes us on this great journey that electricity makes.

Concept: Fabrícia Valente
Targer: + 5 years old

Rehearsal for a Comunity

Find out a bit more about this exhibition that features 136 works of art by 56 Portuguese artists, arranged or grouped into
four themes: Word, Sound, Work and laziness.

Art

maat Play Online

Gabriel Abrantes - Programmed Melancholy
Based on the exhibition Programmed Melancholy by Gabriel Abrantes, we have designed a game with activities for you to do at home with your family. The challenges will be presented in PDF on the museum website and can be done with materials commonly found at home. At the end, you can show your creations on social media! 

Target audience: children and young people aged 7 to 16  
Conceived by: Patrícia Trindade  

PDF: maat Play Online — Gabriel Abrantes: Programmed Melancholy

The Peepshow 
What is hidden in each box? We are going to discover the artists in the EDP Foundation Art Collection through small challenges presented on our website. Every activity will reveal and explore the ideas behind the artists’ work. At the end, you can show your creations on social media.  

Target audience: children and young people aged 6 to 14  
Conceived by: Patrícia Trindade  

PDF: maat Play Online — The Peepshow: Catarina Botelho
PDF: maat Play Online — Maria Lusitano
PDF: maat Play Online — The Peepshow: Paulo Mendes
PDF: maat Play Online — The Peepshow: Pedro Gomes

X is Not a Small Country - Unravelling the Post-Global Order
Exhibition, on show in 2011, thar It explored our current post-global condition by observing at different scales —territories, cities, infrastructures, platforms, bodies, objects—the processes of de-globalisation and geopolitical realignment that have, in many cases, been accelerated and distorted in rapidly evolving cycles of flux and revision during the current pandemic. Watch the video

Aquaria - Or the Illusion of a Boxed Sea
An exhibition, on show in 2021, that proposed a reflexion on possibilities and new questions that the rethinking of our relationship with the marine world could come up against. Watch the video

Earth Bits - Sensing the Planetary
About the complexities of the climate science and humankind’s carbon footprint. This exhibition was on show in 2021. Watch the video

Technology

Static electricity, magic or science?
Electric charges with the same signal are repelled and electric charges of opposite signals are attracted. The phenomenon of static electricity observed in an experience accessible to all.

PDF: static electricity

There was light! The electrical switch
To obtain light at home, a closed electrical circuit is needed to connect the power source to the lamp. What happens when we open the circuit? Simple instructions for learning to control the electric current.

PDF: electrical switch

Will you sail with the wind? Wind energy
The strength of the wind, a natural and inexhaustible resource, allows energy to be produced. Understand wind energy in five steps, accessible to everyone.

PDF: wind energy

(Un)focus: digital photography with analog filters
Photography is the technique of creating images through light exposure. A simple way to create amazing images and understand the essence of photography.

PDF: digital photography with analog filters

Kinetic Energy 
Kinetic energy is a type of energy present in all moving bodies. This energy can have a lot of sources, for example the wind that makes the turbines spin, and usually is transformed in electrical energy besides other purposes.

PDF: Kinetic Energy

Fashion Stylist with Polygons 
Geometry is an area of mathematics that studies the shapes. In this exercise, we used flat shapes and drew polygons.

PDF: Fashion Stylist with Polygons

The Electric Battery
Alessandro Volta invented the battery in 1800 when he disagreed with another scientist, Luigi Galvani, who years earlier had made a dead frog jump. Get to know the story in this video.

Electricity and Magnetism
Hans Christian Oersted discovered the relationship between magnetism and electricity and paved the way for Michael Faraday's discovery, as narrated in this video.

Hydroelectric Power
Learn more about this renewable energy in this video.

Eolic Energy
Learn more about this renewable energy in this video.

Central Tejo
Learn more about this thermal power station which supplied the entire Lisbon region with electric power in this video.

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