Children & School ClassesTours for school classes, children or youth groups can be booked through Galerie Scheffel on The tours are conducted by experienced art teachers, and are designed for different age groups. In contrast to museums, participating children and young people have almost unlimited space in the park. In relaxed surroundings, they will have the opportunity to gain informed access to contemporary works of art. The tours will be held mainly in the form of dialogues, and participants will be encouraged to share their own perceptions. They will also be able to experience the works in a physical way: for sculptures ask to be circled around, viewed from all sides, and even touched. Some can even be smelled. All the senses are thus spoken to. Works of steel and iron get extremely hot in the summer sun, wood gives off an odour; other sculptures can only be experienced spatially: one must walk through them, or get inside them. Subjective perception, personal interpretation and imaginative story-telling are, alongside the art-historical context, important elements in the appreciation of the artistic truth of a work. What effect do the works have on the observer? Where does this impression come from? Is the work coherent? What does it convey? Is it expressive, or cloaked in a suspenseful silence? Does it make its point mysteriously, like a puzzle, or solidly and clearly? The tours can be complemented by one of the workshops on offer. The fee for a 90 minute tour with up to 30 participants plus accompanying adults is 90 Euros. If there are more participants the group will be split. The fee for a tour plus workshop (both 90 minutes) is 140 Euros. Information and Bookings on 0 61 72 – 2 89 06 Tours can be cancelled without charge up to 24 hours before the scheduled time. Later cancellations will incur a cancellation fee of 30 Euros.
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