• the picenes
• the picenes in matelica
• the exhibition itinerary

• the finaguerra palace
• the visit of the museum
• the educational activities

• the city
• the province
• the region

• the city
• events and shopping
• accommodation facilities

The educational activities

The programme of museological teaching, which is called “Let´s meet at the Museum”, started in 2004, in the same year of Matelica´s Civic Archaeological Museum opening and, since its beginning, it registered a massive participation of schools from Marches and from other neighbouring regions, such as Emilia Romagna, Umbria and Abruzzi. The programme is composed of itineraries, which include a visit to the Museum departments and the experimental archaeology laboratories, where students can expand on topics bound up with the ancient civilizations in a playful atmosphere, but in a creative way at the same time. The activities are coordinated by the Educational Services of Matelica´s Civic Archaeological Museum with the support of the Archaeological Heritage Office of Marches, which every year suggests new and different itineraries revolving around the most significant phases of the archaeology in our territory: the ancient history, the Italic Picene civilization, the Roman period. The purpose of the programme is to develop the sense of the past and make young people aware of the problems of heritage preservation, fostering their knowledge through more attractive and absorbing learning methods, such as those the educational laboratories offer. In the educational laboratories, inspired by Matelica´s archaeology, students can re-create past sceneries and make objects after the manner of the ancient people, in order to appreciate their culture and their material production. This year we promote the following itineraries, each of them linked to a special laboratory:

1. THE ANCIENT HISTORY

Objects and pieces of art
The clay working and the earthenware production; the weaving to make mats and carpets; the handloom; the body painting; the graffiti.

2. THE PICENE CIVILIZATION

Power and Magnificence in Picene time
The laboratory is bound up to the archaeological exhibition “POWER AND MAGNIFICENCE. THE ANCIENT PICENE IN MATELICA” (Matelica, Ottoni Palace, April the 19th – October the 31st 2008).
The Prince and the warrior, the techniques for working and decorating objects, jewels and ornaments.

3. THE ROMAN PERIOD

The mosaic
This itinerary is linked to the recent and important finding of mosaics dating back to the Roman period in Matelica. The mosaic with small stones belonging to the Hellenistic age; the Roman mosaic with tesserae.

For more details on the educational activities at Matelica´s Civic Archaeological Museum
please contact the following telephone numbers: 0737. 787244 / 781830 - 338.3809824;
e-mail: museoarcheo@comune.matelica.mc.it