The Region of Crete and The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum presented on Thursday 3 October 2024 the "Educational Museum Kit for Nikos Kazantzakis" at a press conference held in the Region of Crete. The results of the 2-year cooperation between the Region of Crete and The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum for the implementation of the project were presented at the conference.
The project was presented by the Regional Councillor for Education and Lifelong Learning, Eleni Maraki - Belladaki, the Director of Primary Education of Heraklion, Manolis Belladakis, the Director of The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, Marilena Milathianaki, the Director General of Sustainable Development Region of Crete, Marinos Kritsotakis, the head of the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning of the Region of Crete, Kostis Flouris and the Head of the Department of Educational Activities of The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, Hara Vavadaki.
A large interdisciplinary team of 20 people worked together for the design and implementation of the Museum's kit. The Museum Kit includes a set of educational material and activities created with the inspiration of the Museum's collections and deals with the life and work of the author, following the modern pedagogical methods of non-formal and informal education.
The Museum Kit gives students and teachers the opportunity to get to know the great writer through five different sections that highlight five different aspects of Nikos Kazantzakis. The five modules present Nikos Kazantzakis as a writer, a Cretan, a man, a traveller and an intellectual.
The Educational Museum Kit is available free of charge and is addressed to school groups of the 3rd - 6th primary, middle and high school. It is linked to the curriculum of primary and secondary education and fulfils the aims of the Interdisciplinary Unified Curriculum Framework of the Ministry of Education for the subjects of Language, History, Literary Texts, Geography and Visual Arts.
The material of the Museum Kit is partially accessible for people with visual disabilities and this makes our work even more important, since now blind people will have the opportunity to get to know the great author through tactile and auditory stimuli.
We would like to thank Viki Christaki and Eleni Veltanioti for the conception and design, Lazy snail for the design and production, Liminal for the design of the accessible material for visually impaired people, Eyeq Creative Media Productions for the educational video and the Region of Crete for covering the full costs of the project.
To borrow the museum's kit, please click here.
ℹ️ For more information contact the Museum's Department of Educational Activities:
☎️ 2810 741689
