A group sitting around a table, working. In the foreground, a note is passed to another personFoto: Henry Sowinski

Project days

Immerse yourself in literature, discover history, design your own ideas: Our project days with tours and workshops allow pupils to explore selected themes from the era of Weimar Classicism and modernism.

Booking information

Duration: 4 hrs including 30 min break

Price:  80 € up to 10 participants, every additional person 8 €.

up tp 25 persons

Staging Goethe

Pupils investigate the different roles in which Goethe presented himself or has been presented by others. In a guided tour of the Goethe exhibition, the pupils are presented with various writers’ portraits and are shown how to decipher them. In a follow-up photo workshop, the pupils work together in groups to create photographic artworks inspired by a writer’s portrait. The project day ends with a final presentation given to the entire group (or alternatively, in class at school).

Place: Goethe National Museum

Schüler*innen bei der kreativen Aufgabe, Foto: Henry Sowinski

Nature Poetry

Pupils are introduced to Goethe’s first years in Weimar. On a guided tour through the Park on the Ilm and the Goethe Gartenhaus, they learn about the role that nature played in the arts and everyday life around 1800 and in contrast, the role it plays today. Afterwards the children play writing games which serve as inspiration for producing their own lines of verse.

The World in a Book

How does knowledge end up in a book? Using the example of Alexander von Humboldt’s travel journal in the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (HAAB), this project invites pupils to search for and decipher clues about the background of historical books. The programme is a combination of a seminar, tour and workshop. During the tour, the participants become acquainted with libraries as places of knowledge.

Beim Rundgang im Rokokosaal der Bibliothek, Foto: Henry Sowinski

Hand-Bound

The bookbinding workshop operated by Otto Dorfner, an instructor who taught under Henry van de Velde and at the Bauhaus, is the first and only Bauhaus workshop accessible and usable by pupils. During this project day at the Museum Neues Weimar, pupils discover the world of bookbinding, experiment with materials and learn about the themes and techniques of traditional bookbinding. In the Book Workshop, they can make their own booklets which they can take home.

The New Me

Who will be the human of tomorrow? Considering questions posed by the Bauhaus long ago, the pupils view the exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum and then playfully investigate the images of humankind today in the Laboratory. Using facial recognition software, the pupils take a closer look at themselves and try to outwit the “machine” with various design methods.

Schüler*innen machen sich mit den Materialien vertraut.

Designers – Makers – Utopians

In this project, pupils examine the legacy of those famous pioneers of modernism, such as Henry van de Velde. The children are assigned specific roles and in smaller groups work together to solve artisanal and design tasks. The finished products include RSVP cards, wacky eating utensils and mini chair models.

Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.