School program

Dedicated to schools from pre-school to lower-secondary level, the path proposes knowledge of the library with reading and workshop activities on another way of sharing stories: the book, in its multiple declinations, becomes a valuable cognitive, inclusive and multi-sensory passer-by. 
 
The “Leggere oltre” route will be included in the 2025-2026 edition of “Vivi le biblioteche”, a project that structurally offers meetings and activities for class groups in libraries. 
 
For further information: 049-8204801 
 
Reservations within one month before SensoriAbili Padova Days: [email protected] 

The Comini Academy is available to spend several mornings in primary and secondary schools (both lower and upper levels) to introduce students to fencing practice and its adaptation for blind and visually impaired individuals. The goal is to raise awareness among young students about inclusion in sports.

For more information: https://cominischerma.it/eventi-progetti/progetti/

Reservations by April 30th:
Alberto Dei Rossi (teacher)
[email protected] or 338-7570511

The activity only requires the purchase of a museum entrance ticket (free of charge for people with disabilities and their accompanying persons). 

The interactive museum of small animals, insects and silkworms has always been committed to reducing sensory and physical barriers.
For the project dedicated to primary and secondary schools, an interactive tactile workshop with both models and live animals is proposed, in which the topic of social inclusion will also be discussed.

 

Reservations by 30 April 2025: 049-8910189 or [email protected] 

Information: Home – Esapolis

The multisensory and accessible exhibition on Nature includes, in addition to the visitor route, artistic-educational workshops aimed at primary and secondary schools. 
The artistic route is a new way to explore naturalistic and environmental themes, investigated through fingers, creativity and manual dexterity, which will be the guiding thread to include sighted and blind people in an immersive and multisensory experience. 
The international illustrators and artists selected to create the exhibition have worked on four thematic areas: germination, growth, adulthood and the life cycle. Each theme is represented by art installations and tactile works. storiesulledita.it 
 
Contact person: Pietro Vecchiarelli 
 
Workshop bookings by 4 May: [email protected] 

An educational and interactive course dedicated to learning about the sounds that surround us and the importance of taking care of one’s hearing health. Through interactive and fun activities, primary school children can learn to distinguish sounds from noises, understand their effects and implement strategies to reduce noise annoyance in everyday life. The initiative also includes an individual hearing screening for each child’s hearing health status. 
 
Information and bookings: Gaia Spicciarelli and Flavia Gheller, [email protected] or [email protected] 

The inclusive STEM disciplines are aimed at first and second grade secondary schools.  

Everything we know, even ourselves, is made up of bricks built into the stars. To get to know them, surprisingly, we do not have to go into space, but into the silence and darkness of an underground tunnel, from where it is possible to discover the origin of matter. 

The project involves the development of various integrated tools, including the creation of a tactile scale model of the new Bellotti Ion Beam Facility, located in the underground laboratories of the Gran Sasso, to be accompanied by activities and in-depth multimedia material.  

For further information: https://www.dfa.unipd.it/stellesullaterra/  

Reservations by 30 April: Francesco Marcolin, [email protected] or [email protected]  

The proposal is organised by the University Centre for Museums in collaboration with the University Public Engagement Office and the Centre for the History of the University of Padua. 
 
The guided tour with tactile exploration proposals is aimed at secondary school classes. 
 
The only university decorated with a gold medal for military valour, the University of Padua played a fundamental role in the twenty months of the Resistance against German occupation and the reborn fascism of Salò. 
 
If Padua coordinated and led the fight for liberation in the Veneto region after 8th September, in the city the operational centre was right inside the University, in those rooms of the Rector’s Office where, a few days after the occupation, the Veneto National Liberation Committee was set up by Egidio Meneghetti, Silvio Trentin and the newly appointed rector Concetto Marchesi, a fervent anti-fascist and communist. At the inauguration of the new academic year, he launched a famous proclamation, one of the first calls for armed resistance against Nazi-Fascism: students, lecturers, technical and administrative personnel were called upon to fight side by side, making their own contribution of intelligence, and of blood. 
 
Several works of art, some of which will also be the subject of a tactile experience, commemorate their commitment: the bust of Egidio Meneghetti in the hall known as the Basilica, the plaque bearing the names of the 116 people who died at the University in the fight against Nazi-Fascism, the first monument to a partisan in Italy, namely Arturo Martini’s ‘Palinuro’, and the site-specific installation ‘Resistenza e Liberazione’ (Resistance and Liberation) by Jannis Kounellis, a true anti-monumental tear in what was once the Cortile del Littorio. 
 
https://mostre.cab.unipd.it/arteperlaresistenza/ 
 
Reservations by Friday 9th May: Chiara Marin: [email protected], 331-2339521. We kindly ask you to report the presence of visitors with motor disabilities in order to ensure access by lift. 

The route is aimed at all primary and secondary schools.
In dialogue with the ancient gods and heroes, the multisensory route takes place in the museum’s plaster cast gallery of classical art, where numerous modern copies of Greek and Roman sculptures reproduced in plaster and therefore tactile explorable are exhibited.
The aim is to relate ancient works and people through an inclusive mode made possible by the integrated use of visual and tactile exploration.
The class will try out numerous activities. starting from tactile exploration, the graphic restitution of the work, its interpretation and internalisation in the personal experience of each person and, finally, sharing in groups also thanks to activities such as mime or storytelling created by the various groups.

The activity lasts one hour. Only one class or one class group per hour is accepted. 

Visiting slots begin at 9.00 am, 10.00 am, 11.00 am and 12.00 am (noon, last admission).

Reservations by 9th May: please contact 049-8273939, available daily from 9 am to 5 pm, or write to [email protected]