The Municipal Museum of Olhão – Compromisso Marítimo Building is teaching the 3rd grade students of the municipality's schools the “Jogo do Moinho”, which dates back to the Arab occupation and has been falling into disuse.
The initiative, which is taking place throughout this school year, is included in the Museum's Heritage Education Project project.
«The objective of this activity is, in a playful way, to divulge the cultural heritage existing in the region and, gradually, to deconstruct the idea that the young public have of museum spaces», explains the Chamber of Olhão.
The municipality emphasizes that "through a board game, concentration, strategic thinking and plastic expression are promoted, since each child was invited to build, together with the parents, their board and its pieces" .
The children, from the BRA2A class, from the EB1 School of Brancanes, were visited, in a first phase, by technicians from the Municipal Museum, who presented and taught the rules of the Moinho Game. At a later stage, parents and children built a board at home, which served as the motto for an activity that took place outside the school.
On February 22nd, the class visited the Museum, where the children presented their boards and played with each other.
Meanwhile, «the Association of Parents of the Prof. Paula Nogueira proposed the dynamization of the game in the school's Library, from a perspective of dynamization of the same space, which happened in the afternoon, where Brancanes' class taught 7thA of EB2,3 Carlos da Maia how to play, “multiplying ”, thus, the effect of the activity promoted by the Municipal Museum of Olhão», tells the Chamber of Olhão.
The project, which will accompany the students throughout the school year, also foresees an exchange between the two schools, which will culminate in a Mill Game tournament between parents and children, which will take place at the Municipal Museum – Edifício do Compromisso Marítimo.
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