I really like going to museums, but that's now, but as a child I was frankly bored there. And I'm not the only one, the whole class was languishing, but it was embarrassing to admit our low level of cultural development, so to the question "Did you like it?" everyone answered "Yes!", and to further questions "What did you like, what did you remember, what did they tell you?" everyone hung in unison, and after a pause they blurted out something, just to get them to leave me alone.
At school we went to museums after classes, did you too? If so, you probably remember that feeling when, after studying for six lessons, without having had a proper lunch, you all go in a crowd on public transport, walk around the halls of a museum with backpacks full of textbooks, and a tour guide (maybe even a good one) says something (maybe even something interesting), but there are twenty of you, all of you have more pressing problems than the play of light and shadow in a birch grove on a hot afternoon, everyone is dreary, hungry, and has shoe covers on your feet, and there is nowhere to sit…
In general, now I try to make a visit to the museum a pleasant and memorable event for both myself and my child. We go there in the first half of the day, when we are both still full of energy, and after that we always stop by to rest and eat a cake in a cafe to consolidate the pleasant impressions of the time spent.
We spend no more than an hour in a museum: after that, everything starts to tire us out, and interest quickly fades. In particular, all of the above applies, of course, to art museums - with modern scientific ones, everything is simpler, children find it easy and interesting there, but art galleries still exude boredom.
Therefore, a few days before the trip, we begin to prepare the ground: we take out an art album or a set of postcards, look at them and discuss them, and then in the museum we play the game "Find the Painting". By the way, if you buy two identical sets of postcards, you can play the game "Memo" with paintings of great artists, which is loved by many children.
If we can't prepare in advance, we improvise on the spot. For example, we look at a picture from afar, discuss it and try to guess the title. What's interesting is that we almost always guess or are very close to the correct answer.
We really love the “Find and Show” style game: we go up to a painting and take turns guessing at the details: “Find a club.” “Find an arrow.” “Find a glove.” “Find a stirrup.” Huh? Can you guess which painting I’m talking about? And some large canvases also have the artist’s sketches – it’s also interesting to look for these fragments on the whole.
And recently, having leafed through an album on expressionism and inspired by the bright colors, we ourselves tried to paint a picture in the given style. Neither the child nor I are artists, so we did not take risks - we chose to imitate the works of Jackson Pollock. You know, I think we succeeded...
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