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BREAKING DOWN THE WALLS

At Grandson Castle, history does not sit quietly behind the ramparts: it breaks free, provokes and questions.

Grandson Castle offers school groups a programme of educational activities designed in connection with the PER curriculum. Guided tours, creative workshops, storytelling and puzzle games: each activity transforms the monument into a place of learning. Admission to the exhibitions is included in the price of the activity.

General information

Participants
Maximum 25 people per activity
School rate
Admission to the exhibitions is included in the price of each activity
School group visits
From 8 am by prior booking, on days when the museum is open.
Seasonality
Some activities are offered only in summer or winter

Guided tours

Accompanied by a museum educator, pupils discover the castle and its exhibitions.
Grandson: 1,000 years of history
A thousand years of history separate the first written mention of Grandson Castle from the present day, a story brought to life by the permanent exhibition.

Each period can be associated with a person or institution that owned the castle.

This tour explores the challenges associated with a building of this kind, as well as key aspects of local history.

Price: CHF 120
Practical information
Duration: 1 hr 15 min. Tours can be adapted to the pupils’ school level. Two groups of 25 pupils can take part in this activity simultaneously in the exhibition rooms.

Discovery activities

Handle, experiment, understand: workshops that bring history to life through hands-on experience.
Building a fortress: the challenge of medieval construction
How was a medieval castle built? Which trades were involved?

Through a series of hands-on activities, pupils discover the construction techniques used on major medieval building sites.

Price: CHF 180
Budding archaeologists
Pupils become archaeologists for the duration of the workshop: excavating a sand pit, uncovering pottery fragments, dating their finds and reconstructing a vessel.

Price: CHF 120
Practical information
Duration: 1 hr 15 min to 2 hrs. Cycle 2 · PER: MSN 25-26-28, SHS 21-22-23, FG 26-27
These activities take place in the castle grounds.

Creative activities

Imagine, create and take your work home: workshops where history inspires creativity.
The colours of power: create your own coat of arms
Pupils discover the coats of arms painted in tempera inside the castle, then try this centuries-old technique for themselves by designing and painting their own coat of arms on a wooden shield.

Cycle 1 · PER: SHS 11-12, A 11-12-13-14
Price: CHF 180
Become a master war chronicler
How have accounts of the Burgundian Wars been passed down to us? After visiting the dedicated exhibition spaces, pupils create their own illustrated chronicle in the style of 15th-century authors.

Cycle 2 · PER: SHS 21-22, A 21-22-23-24
Price: CHF 180
Practical information
Duration: 1 hr 15 min to 1 hr 45 min.

Storytelling

Listen, dream, create: costumed storytellers take pupils into the world of the castle.
Storytelling tour
Guided through the castle by a costumed storyteller, pupils discover four tales that reveal the fortress through the world of imagination.

Cycles 1 and 2 · PER: SHS 11-12, 21-22
Price: CHF 120
Draw me a story
A storyteller recounts an event that took place at the castle. Inspired by the story, pupils illustrate it in the form of a comic strip.

Cycle 1 · PER: SHS 11-12, A 11-12-13-14
Price: CHF 120
Practical information
Duration: 1 hr 15 min to 1 hr 30 min.

Prices

Admission to the exhibitions is included in the price of each activity.

Guided tours
CHF 120
Discovery activities
CHF 120 – 180 depending on the activity
Creative activities
CHF 180
Storytelling
CHF 120

Support

The development of Grandson Castle’s educational activities was made possible thanks to the support of Loterie Romande and Fondation Cepy.

Explore Beyond the Castle Walls

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