Guided tours, workshops, studios, courses, discovery tours – the range of our educational offerings is as broad and diverse as our exhibitions themselves. Sometimes it’s a surprised “ahaaa!” that we elicit from the participants, sometimes the two-silver turns into resounding laughter or a flea that gets stuck in the ear and doesn’t stop spinning on the thought carousel at least on the way home; sometimes children and adults become artists themselves and are allowed to take their own small work home with them, then again they take off their artist’s smock at the museum door and leave energy and creativity behind in the exhibition rooms until the next pupil and workshop participant enters the museum. Is there perhaps another exciting thought or idea floating through the air that could be captured for a brief moment? Who knows…

For Manuela Hitz, it is precisely the fleeting, not always tangible aspect that makes art education so exciting. The Musée’s education manager compares education to playing in the sand. “It’s like when children build a sandcastle by the sea. Sometimes they build too close to the water – or at some point the tide comes in and washes everything away. Nobody would think of taking the sandcastle home with them. What counts is the creative process, lingering in the moment.” Of course, it is also nice when something is created that can be tucked under the arm and taken home. But it shouldn’t be about the result, a specific product or the question of whether something is beautiful or not. “Creating, lingering and forgetting – that’s what interests me.”