Play with the first moving image techniques
As part of Art Day for Children, you can snap a selfie at a restaurant, share a video of your dance performance, or go to the cinema with sound and smell effects - fun! But how about travelling back 150 years to discover the earliest techniques in moving images? We bet you can be just as creative as the children of the 19th and early 20th centuries!
Explore the walk-in studio tables:
- Make it move – create a “wonder wheel” (thaumatrope) or draw a flip book.
- Camera obscura – all you need is some cardboard, silver paper and tape to understand how a camera works.
- Magic lantern – come up with a mini story, draw it on a transparent sheet, and project your artwork!
- Photo editing avant la lettre – forget Photoshop and use scissors, glue and paint to edit old photos.
- Smile for the camera! – make an accessory or a full outfit and step in front of the green screen. It will look like you’re standing in a Belle Époque interior!
- Sound and light – the first films had no sound. Here, you can choose instruments and objects to create music in sync with the images.
Performance
Be enchanted by dazzling avant-garde dance on the big screen, accompanied live by a musician playing along with what you see.
For the little ones
At the crèche café, children can play and read freely.
Don’t miss
Take a look at the renovated 19th- and 20th-century decorative arts galleries, and let the Erfgoedapp guide you on a playful tour.
The programme is subject to change.
Practical information
- Price: € 12 (4-12 years) / € 10 (adults) / € 8 (65+)
- More information? Ask your question via public@kmkg-mrah.be