EDUCATION. Workshops and educational activities
The main cultural centre of Aosta Valley offers to schools a wide range of workshops and educational activities. They can be modulated depending on school attitude and on children age.
Three permanent paths inside the majestic fortress, reachable through a walking distance and with three panoramic lifts free of charge, offering a breath-taking view of the Dora Baltea central valley. The Museum of the Alps is the heart of the cultural offer, a path made of thirty rooms to discover the alpine world that is perfect in terms of teaching. In addition to the Museum it is possible to join the path called The Children Alps, featuring a virtual ascent to the Mont Blanc, then the historic route of the Prisons and a range of photographic and art exhibitions of international aim.
Schools can also choose to join a guided tour of the Fortress in combination with permanent museums.
In Opera Mortai (picture) it has been set up a resting place and a welcome area both dedicated to schools, with a classroom for workshops, meetings and screenings.
Museum workshops
Fortress of Bard Association offers different educational workshops accordingly to different schools. School educational workshops are available from Tuesday to Friday, both in the morning and in the afternoon. A renewed and stronger offer. The kind of the educational class, its aims, the duration of the visit and the workshop activity has been designed to suit the specific age of each group and accordingly to teachers’ needs.
WORKSHOPS PRICES
All schools:
135,00 € (90,00 € if organized between September and January)
Valle d’Aosta Schools:
90,00 € (80,00 € if organized between September and January)
Rates refer to groups with a maximum of 25 students and they do not include the entrance ticket to the Museum of the Alps or the Prisons.
Nursery School and disabled: free entrance
Primary and Secondary School: 4,00 € (Museum); 3,00 € (Prisons)
BOOKING
From Monday to Friday 9 a.m – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone Number +39 0125 833818
E-mail prenotazioni@fortedibard.it
Group programs
A visit to the monument consists of a historical and architectural illustration of the Fort, its restoration project and the museum project. The route begins at the departure of the elevators (Accoglienza), it continues along the walkways of the Fort and it ends in the Piazza d’Armi Yard.
Groups: up to 25 people
Duration : one hour and 15 minutes
Price: € 65 per group
This proposal may also be combined with a visit of the Museum of the Alps:
Price: € 80,00 per group + admission to the Museum (2 hours)
This proposal may also be combined with a visit to the Big Exhibition:
Price: € 90 per group + entrance ticket (2 hours)
Guided tour to the museum of the Alps
A visit to the Museum of the Alps allows the discovery of life in the Alps, flora, fauna, geography, orogeny, mountain climbing and mountain tourism.
Groups up to 25 people
Duration: one hour and 15 minutes
Price: € 65 per group plus ticket entry € 6.00 (adults) – € 4.00 (boys and girls)
Guided tour to big expositions
A visit to the Museum of the Alps allows the discovery of life in the Alps, flora, fauna, geography, orogeny, mountain climbing and mountain tourism.
Groups up to 25 people
Duration: one hour and 15 minutes
Price: € 8o per group plus ticket entry € 8.00 (adults) – € 5.00 (children)
Team building laboratories
Problem-solving activities designed to help members of a group to develop the ability to work effectively together.
Groups up to 25 people
Duration: 3 hours
Rates : € 90.00 ( from September 1st to January 31st)
€ 135.00 ( from February 1st to August 31st)
Active route
A new guided tour to the Fortress but more extended, for those who love to walk on trails for easy access. The course allows you to explore the countryside surrounding the fort and learning about its history along a route of about two kilometres lasting two hours. It requires a comfortable shoe rubber .
The cost is € 90 for every 25 people.
Booking
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From Monday to Friday 9 a.m – 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone Number + 39 0125 833818
E-mail prenotazioni@fortedibard.it