Middle School | Themed Tours

Guided Tours & Workshops for Young People Ages 10–14

The ALBERTINA Museum offers entertaining, age-appropriate participatory tours. Materials to touch are on hand to help explain artistic techniques and create a connection with our young participants’ own worlds. In the studio workshops, we put what we’ve seen and learned into practice. We paint, draw, build, or sketch depending on the theme and workshop duration.

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THE VIENNESE BOHÈME: WORKS OF THE HAGEN SOCIETY

In the exhibition The Viennese Bohéme: Works of the Hagen Society, students discover the exciting world of Viennese coffee houses, creative artist communities, and humorous caricatures. The interactive tour provides age-appropriate access to art from around 1900 and combines vivid knowledge with active experience. 

In the subsequent workshop (30 or 60 minutes), students put their impressions into practice: inspired by caricatures and joke pictures, they use various materials to create their own humorous work of art.
 

BRIGITTE KOWANZ:  LIGHT IS WHAT WE SEE
 

The exhibition invites schoolchildren on a fascinating journey into the world of light art. Brigitte Kowanz is one of Austria's most important contemporary artists, and her work revolves around the central question: “What is light?” 

Light makes everything visible, yet it is itself mostly invisible. Mirrored rooms, black light, and interactive compositions allow schoolchildren to experience this paradox for themselves. We explore the phenomenon of light, Morse code, encrypted messages, and information transmission.

In the 30-minute workshop, participants create a friendship bracelet with an encrypted message, while in the 60-minute studio session, children explore black light and its effects.

GOTHIC MODERN: MUNCH, BECKMANN, KOLLWITZ
 

The exhibition Gothic Modern invites visitors on an exciting journey into the past. It shows how artists around 1900 were fascinated by Gothic and early Renaissance art and drew inspiration from its techniques, traditions, and themes.Works by Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, and Paula Modersohn-Becker meet Hans Holbein, Lucas Cranach, and Albrecht Dürer—allowing students to discover similarities, differences, and developments in both eras.

The tour invites them to discover, ask questions, and participate, bringing topics such as life, death, community, and nature to life in an exciting way.

Afterwards, a 30- or 60-minute workshop can be booked in the studio. In the workshop, the students focus on drawing: in 30 minutes, inspired by everyday objects, they create eerily beautiful hybrid creatures. In 60 minutes, the students collage themselves à la Renaissance tondo in their smartest party dresses.

THE BATLINER COLLECTION
 

brings together the most beautiful works of classical modernism. In age-appropriate and richly varied ways, we investigate that era’s most famous artists together with the participating students. These tours each last one hour and can be booked on their own or in combination with a 30- or 60-minute workshop.

Choose from the following themes:

Monet to Picasso
An overview of classical modernism’s most important features in one guided tour! This tour lasts one hour and can be combined with a workshop (30 or 60 minutes).

Portraiture
We retrace the transformation of portraiture that took place between impressionism and cubism.
In the 30-minute workshop, students produce self-portraits on hand mirrors. In the 60-minute workshop, they develop these self-portraits into cubist works.

Still Lifes
We use the exhibited still lifes to take a closer look at classical modernist trends. The 30-minute workshop has us arrange still lifes and draw them. In the 60-minute workshop, we realize our still lifes with paintbrushes and gouache.

Landscapes
The landscapes we view here reveal to us the essential features of impressionism, expressionism, and cubism. In the 30-minute workshop, students create landscapes of their own. In the 60-minute workshop, they go on to translate these landscapes into different styles.

Sculpture
The focus in this tour variant is on the Batliner Collection’s three-dimensional objects. In the 30-minute workshop, we create sculptures using clay. In the 60-minute workshop, we carve sculptures out of polystyrene blocks.

Artists on the Run
This tour gives students an opportunity to engage with the topics of migration and displacement in light of the biographies and works of Chagall, Magritte, and Picasso. In the 30-minute studio workshop, our young participants face the challenge of having to set out on new creative paths as artists. What to do when one’s accustomed motifs are no longer accessible or when familiar working materials can’t be had? In the 60-minute workshop, we use the additional time to reflect on this as a group.

Writing Workshop
We take inspiration here from the collection’s masterpieces to write stories, poems, or free-form texts, experimenting with narrative perspectives while giving grammar and spelling concerns a break. We author our texts directly in the exhibition hall. This writing workshop lasts either 90.

Addressing Conflicts with Art
Conflicts are difficult—but also important in developing our own personalities and attitudes. Here, we combine appreciation of art with strategies for respectful communication. The 30-minute workshop sees us analyze group dynamics and practice esteeming interaction while creating an artwork as a group. The 60-minute workshop gives us additional time to practice and repeat.

Monet to Picasso - Online
Via Zoom, the art educator connects to your class at the agreed-upon time and brings the masterpieces of the exhibition Monet to Picasso to the classroom projector screen.

PRICES & DURATION

Admission | Free

Tour fee per participating class member:

Please note that the tour time also includes associated procedures, such as handing in the wardrobe together.

Prices include VAT. | Teachers and accompanying adults (max. 2 per class/group) visit the exhibition for free and bear responsibility for the participating minors while at the museum. | School classes with more than 15 students will be divided.

All themed tours are also available in English, Italian, French, and Spanish; please indicate your choice of language on the inquiry form. These guided tours are wheelchair-accessible, and we warmly welcome classes with and for students with disabilities.

Reservation Inquiries & Contact Information

ALBERTINA Museum Art Education Department
Weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at T: +43 1 534 83 540
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