SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, September 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Cabildo of Tenerife has launched the 2023-2024 educational program at the Museum of Ibero-American Crafts of Tenerife (MAIT) with the aim of transmitting to 5,000 schoolchildren the artisanal reality that is part of the island’s identity.
The Minister of Employment and Education, Efraín Medina; the manager of the Insular Crafts Company, Ricardo Cloguen; and the technician of the MAIT Education Department, Domingo Reyes, presented the main news this Friday.
Medina explained that the MAIT programming “covers all educational levels and includes six itineraries and eight workshops and a game to be developed in the museum facilities, as well as teaching in the centers, where traditional pottery and art workshops are held. textile fibers and natural dyes”.
As a novelty, he said, “in this edition, educational centers are offered the possibility of proposing a traditional craft to work on, for which the same methodology as the school days will be followed, that is, with a theoretical part and a practical part with demonstration and workshop of the trade”.
The Museum of Ibero-American Crafts of Tenerife, located in the old convent of San Benito Abad, in La Orotava, is part of the outreach program carried out by the Cabildo through the Insular Crafts Company.
In this sense, Ricardo Cloguen indicated that the main objective of MAIT “is to make known the artisanal reality of Ibero-America in an immediate and tangible way, creating a large permanent exhibition, representative of all Ibero-American crafts, both current and disappeared, paying special attention to attention to Canarian crafts. The program was launched in 2010 and currently we reach about 5,000 schoolchildren each year.”
For his part, Gregorio Reyes explained that the museum’s school teaching “has as a priority that the students know and value the origin, evolution and current situation of Canarian crafts in order to, in this way, and with a broader perspective, get closer to reality. artisans from other countries of the Ibero-American community”.
The MAIT programming for the 2023-2024 campaign covers all educational levels and revolves around two axes: the visit of schools to the museum, choosing between the educational itineraries (guided tour) and the designed workshops and the visit of the museum to the school center to implement the ‘School Crafts Days’, which include dissemination and training on traditional crafts for students from Compulsory Secondary Education.
