Foto: Frida Gregersen
In education courses, we work together in an open and investigative learning space. Together we experiment in creative processes and put art into new words.
You are welcome to book a self-led school visit, and we offer free admission for pre-schools, primary and secondary schools and youth education. The visit must be booked at least 5 days in advance. You can book here.
If you have any questions about booking or teaching programs, you are welcome to contact us at booking@arken.dk.
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Digging holes and building mountains is an ancient game that is eternally fascinating - sand can be reused endlessly! ARKEN invites schools and institutions to participate in the Beach Lab HOLE & MOUNTAIN in Ishøj Strandpark. In the Beach Lab we will experiment with new landscapes and places. You will be given the name of a place that you will create by digging deep, building high and shaping and sensing everything in between. Your most important tools are shovels, buckets, hands, feet, eyes, ears, ideas and community. Together we will create a huge exhibition of amazing landscapes. Bring your shovels and buckets!
The HOLE & MOUNTAIN Beach Lab is a collaboration with artist Rune Fjord and takes place on Friday 13 June 2025. All schools and daycare centres are welcome. Contact booking@arken.dk for registration and programme.
There is humor, spontaneity, wildness and big gestures in Frederik Næblerød's art. Making art - and looking at art - can be impulsive and out of the box when you dare.
In the teaching program, we plunge fearlessly into the exhibition's universe of absurd, fun and boundary-breaking paintings, sculptures and installations. We work with exercises and experiment with how we can become part of the artist's game, as a kind of participant in his artworks. We respond to images with images, speed up and slow down, put impulsive, quirky words to art, make decisions with our bodies and connect things in new ways. How hard can it be?
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For teacher and pedagogue students, participating in a meta-course can be a valuable experience on several levels. They gain insight into the special art education methods that have been developed at ARKEN with art as the subject matter. They will realize that the methods can be used widely: in professional or interdisciplinary contexts as well as in an educational perspective.
By trying out ARKEN's teaching programs on their own, they also gain a general insight into the special potentials associated with experiential learning in an external learning environment such as a cultural institution.
Target group: Teacher and pedagogue students.
Price: 120 minutes - DKK 1,500.
Write to us at booking@arken.dk if you would like to book a ‘meta’ program.
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In our preschool program, we use stories from picture books that the children have already been introduced to by their teachers. We identify with the characters in the book and ‘play out the story’ at ARKEN. Together with selected props, the museum's rooms and artworks become a scenography that takes us on a sensory journey. Along the way, we explore art and architecture with sensory and creative approaches that include all children and support a common language of experience. There is room to integrate the children's ideas and curiosity for the museum space into the shared story.
The programs are partnership programs that include prior educator workshops and are agreed with municipal contact persons as well as preschool managers prior to a school year.
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Courses in the Creative Elective Studies Lab (KV-Lab) are aimed at the visual arts elective in upper secondary school. We focus on how to experiment and engage in non-linear creative processes. We also focus on putting art, experiments and processes into words. KV-Lab was a part of a development project and is now launched as a partnership program.
The Creative Elective Lab also aims to develop the competences of visual arts teachers through teacher workshops and mutual learning in the partnership.
In our Creative Lab program (K-Lab), we delve into the study of selected works of art or exhibitions. We also engage in experimental and creative workshop processes that arise from the encounter with art. The program lasts three days of 4 hours each and takes place both at ARKEN and at the school. K-Lab are partnership programs that are agreed with the school management/municipality prior to a new school year. Pre-workshops for teachers are an integral part of the K-Lab partnership.
Methods and partnership thinking in K-Lab are developed in the development project ‘Laboratory for Creative Learning’.
Bags, drinks and food may not be brought into the exhibition area, but must be stored in the cloakroom. The cloakroom at ARKEN may be used free of charge. Lockers can be locked with a personal 4-digit code.
Schools and institutions may eat their lunches in the basement. There can be quite a large number of school classes visiting ARKEN in the mornings, so in the warmer months we encourage you to enjoy your lunch in the outdoor areas on the Museum Island or at Ishøj Beach Park just a two-minute walk from the museum, where there are tables, benches and public toilets.
You are more than welcome to take photographs, but flashes are not permitted. Any artwork that you are not permitted to photograph will be clearly marked.
The artwork at ARKEN is fragile and irreplaceable, so please make it clear to all students that the art must not be touched.
The CREATIVE workshop is reserved on weekdays for the museum's own lessons. We encourage you to bring your own drawing supplies if you want to sit in the exhibitions and immerse yourself in the artwork.
Pupils must always be accompanied by a teacher/adult. It can be tempting to run in the museum's giant halls, but for safety reasons - for your own safety and the safety of the artwork - please no running or roughhousing.
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