CHILDREN’S CLUB

The MoCA Children’s Club educational program was conceived with the purpose of providing active communication in visual arts, as well as general knowledge concerning history and theory of art (both national and global) to preschool and elementary school children. The program examines various modes of working with children, applicable in curricular conception, and develops new modes of working with schools. In contemporary school curriculums, creative expression has, as a natural outlet for creative thinking, an important role within working models in all areas of education. Children’s creative expression, achieved through art, has an integrative role for children’s experience, activating all that a child knows and feels. This mode of working provides a child with an opportunity to examine elements of reality, establish connections between them and define the world which surrounds it, and all that without a fear of making a mistake. The permanent museum display and its current exhibitions, with the thematic scope that provides both integrative and active approach to learning, represent the roadmap for learning based on information processing and problem solving.

MoCA Children’s Club is a project the programs of which are exercised simultaneously and realized on the basis of the museum’ permanent display and its current exhibitions.
Workshop 1+1 is a program for children and students of educational faculties. It is created on the basis of one student + one child principle. The program is built in accordance to the museum’s exhibition program.

I Know What You Did This Week is a program created with the aim of providing children with a direct contact with artists and works of art.  This is a year-long program, based on the museum’s exhibition program.

The Open Door program was established for pedagogues, tutors and teachers. Its objective is to facilitate communication between the museum and schools.

The We Are Going to the Museum program is related to the group visits of children to the museum.

Program for Guests is realized through the cooperation with other institutions with similar programs.

MoCA Children’s Club embraces children from the age of 5 up to the age of 15, their pedagogues, tutors, teachers and parents. Club membership provides a number of privileges:
membership card valid for two persons, which enables both child and its escort to attend all museum programs free of charge participation in MoCA Children’s Club workshops
receiving updates on all museum programs via post or electronic mail possibility of communication with the museum via electronic address dkmsub@msub.org.rs professional guidance through the museum’s permanent display and all its current exhibitions using museum library fund participation in annual promotions of MoCA Children’s Club special discounts in the museum shop

The program is realized in the exhibition space of the Museum of Contemporary Art, a part of which is also the Sculpture Park. The building of the Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in the park, by the confluence of two major rivers, and represents an ideal ecological environment for children.

Since 2002, more than 200 workshops and numerous seminars for pedagogues, tutors and teachers have been realized through this program.

Permanent program contributors:
pedagogues: Zorana Mihajlov and Nataša Lazović,
moderators: students at the teaching studies department of the Academy of Fine Arts
MoCA contributor: Olivera Nastić

Program authors and executives:
Vesna Milić, senior curator at MoCA and Jelica Radovanović, artist and art pedagogue