Learning
Come to M HKA with your class
Whether you come to the museum with your class or want to bring art into the classroom, M HKA offers an inclusive, inspiring and enriching educational programme for all levels of education.
Our guided tours and labs encourage slow looking, critical reflection, feeling and creative action. We build bridges between art and education, society and imagination.
Guided tours
A guide takes the class on a journey of discovery through the museum, adapted to the pupils’ level. Together we look, interpret, philosophise about colours and shapes, associate and make connections between art and the group’s everyday world.
This helps pupils learn to look at images differently, formulate their own opinions and think critically about art and society. The focus is on qualitative and in-depth dialogue, curiosity and creativity.
Labs
During a lab, pupils immerse themselves in the art of doing: experimenting with materials and media, exploring how images work and creating themselves. The process comes first, not the end result: trying, failing, starting again and reflecting. In this way, pupils gain insight into how contemporary art comes into being and functions.
Independent visit
Prefer to explore with your class on your own, without a guide? That is possible too. Teachers can guide their class themselves or provide assignments. Please let us know in advance when you are coming, so that we can welcome you smoothly. Send an email to reservatie@muhka.be.
Practical information
- Welcome from 09:00 – exclusively for school groups booking a guided tour with a guide
- Visits possible from Tuesday to Friday.
- Guided tours start at 9:15, 11:00 or 13:00
- Labs start at 9:15 or 13:00
- Free transport – With dynamoOPWEG you travel free of charge with De Lijn to and from the museum.
- Booking: minimum 2 weeks in advance
+32 (0) 3 260 99 99
reservatie@muhka.be
Art in the classroom
For the third stage of primary education and secondary education
M HKA is also happy to come into the classroom. Through interactive working methods and teaching materials, we bring contemporary art to pupils without the need for a museum visit. In this way, art becomes something that can be discussed in the school’s own context, and pupils become acquainted with new images and ideas in an accessible way.
For teachers (in training)
M HKA actively supports (future) teachers in art education:
- Continuing professional development & training on looking, guiding and working with art in the classroom.
- Annual Teachers’ Day, in collaboration with Klasse
Our vision
At M HKA, active meaning-making is central. Art is not a one-way process: pupils, teachers and facilitators become active participants in a meaningful dialogue with art, one another and the world. We encourage critical thinking, imagination and inclusivity, with attention to different learning styles and backgrounds. The quality of the activities always takes precedence over quantity.
Art helps us understand the world – and sometimes question it too.
