Workshop aimed at a family audience (children from 4 years old with adults) and which forms part of the programme of TAC! Festival of Urban Architecture.

This workshop will reflect on the uses of squares and invite participants to imagine how to achieve a more habitable, green, dynamic and child-friendly environment.

We will debate about which aspects of traditional Valencian society we can rescue, not only when it comes to building structures, but also when it comes to relating to each other.

To build our ideal square, participants will create models with natural and recycled materials, following the principles of sustainable architecture. 

What if we go back to the street to "prendre la fresca"?

This workshop is part of the TAC! programme, an annual festival organised by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, which promotes innovation and experimentation in architecture through the construction of a temporary pavilion in different cities throughout Spain.

The festival brings together contemporary architecture, young practice, reflection on the urban and the social through meetings and cultural activities around the pavilion in which they will dialogue with the citizens.

Granada is the city that hosted the first edition of TAC! in 2022.

The second edition of TAC! takes place in September 2023 and the host cities are Valencia and Donostia-San Sebastian. Both proposals open a reflection on the role of architecture in the challenges facing the urban environment in the current context of climate emergency.

Through a story about winter, in each session we will try to explain what the changes of season mean in our daily lives. In addition to the explanation of the story, we will use multimedia material. With it, we will be able to see the changes in the landscape according to the different seasons and also with several images of pieces from the museum, we will be able to discover things about the past and present daily life in each season.

The workshop explores, through painting, the chromatisms, shapes and importance of the Jardines del Túria on its 35th anniversary, in order to highlight the value of this green lung and learn about its past. Using different techniques and in a collaborative way between adults and children, we will create a work of art that they will be able to take home.

The bogeyman is part of the imaginary of fantastic characters that have frightened children. In different cities and towns, the legends change, but... Did the bogeyman really carry children away? What if it wasn't true? Why does he walk around with only a sack on his back? What does the bogeyman carry inside his sack?

We take advantage of the fact that our character has gone out and we look inside his sacks. We discover the thousand and one ways we can play with sacks. I'm sure you didn't know that the bogeyman had so many surprises in store.

Calendar, timetable and form of access:

For families: Sundays 15, 22 and 29 October and 5 November, at 12 noon. Tickets available from the Thursday before each workshop through www.letno.es.
For schools: Tuesday to Friday, from 17 October to 3 November. More information: 963 883 578 - didactica.etnologia@dival.es

Not so long ago, plants, stones or reeds were materials used for work and reused to make tools, toys, etc. Fem de colors is an activity in which, instead of using elements from nature, we will take care of it by reusing everyday waste that endangers both the environment and those who live in it, creating our good luck pendant in homage to nature. We can wear it and hang it wherever we like, reminding us of the importance of our consumption and waste management.

To improve the workshop experience and to have more options to make beautiful things, if you want you can bring from home plastic bottles and caps, straws... anything plastic that you are not going to use and that you want to give a second life to.

We start the new season with renewed educational workshops for the whole family. Aimed at children from 4 years old accompanied by an adult, they are held on Sundays at 12:00 noon. 

Tickets will be distributed from the Thursday before each workshop and the person in charge will meet the participants in the museum foyer at 12:00 noon. 

The workshops will be held in both Spanish and Valencian.

We invite you to a bike ride through the Turia Garden where we will tell forgotten stories, collective experiences, identify archaeological remains of ancient uses and reflect on the process of construction of this emblematic space of the city that has not always been as we see it today. We want to renew the way we look at a space that we take for granted and activate new feelings of esteem, understanding, knowledge and responsibility towards the city we inhabit.

The route will sail up the river by bicycle with several explanatory stops, up to the Naturia building for a guided visit to the exhibition BEFORE THE GARDEN, where we will see photographic and archival documentation of everything we experienced on the bike ride.

Duration: 2 h. 30 min.
Departure point: Caixa Forum (Agora Building)
Starting time: 9:30 a.m.
Small groups of a maximum of 10-12 people.
Please register by e-mail: letno@dival.es
Phone number: 963 883 633
Bring your own bicycle. 
Low difficulty

For more information, please contact: letno@dival.es

➔10.00 h
Plantà in Corona street of the falla d'estiu El triunfo del Foot-ball (The Triumph of Football) presented in the exhibition De granotes, gats i palmeres. The Origins of the Levante U.D. de L'ETNO. Reproduction of the falla by Regino Mas and Rafael Albert that was set up on the 18th and 19th March 1923 in Mossen Sorell square, just a few metres from the current location of L'ETNO.

➔22.00h
Dinner at the bar/cafeteria service in the patio of L'ETNO (each person brings their own dinner). Reservation required at letno@dival.es

➔21.00 h
DJ World Music session by Paco Valiente in the courtyard of L'ETNO.

➔23.00h
Cremà de la falla (burning of the falla) in Corona street.

➔23.30h
Verbena (festivity) with Ele DJ in Corona Street.

Every Sunday of the months of the exhibition (July 2023 - April 2024) our guides will conduct free guided tours for all audiences to the temporary exhibition 2238 Paterna. Place of perpetration and memory, as part of the activities that will be carried out as part of the programme Las Fosas del Franquismo. Archaeology, Anthropology and Memory.

This programme, carried out jointly with the Museum of Prehistory of Valencia and the Delegation of Historical Memory of the Provincial Council of Valencia, includes another temporary exhibition organised by the Museum of Prehistory and which can also be visited at the La Beneficencia Museum Centre. It is called Archaeology of Memory. The graves of Paterna. The timetable can be chosen, i.e. you can see the Prehistory exhibition first (for example at 11 a.m.) and then the Ethnology exhibition (at 12:30 p.m.) or the other way round. They do not have a specific order, you can visit them as you see fit. 

Those who wish to visit the aforementioned exhibition should inform the information point at the Centro Museístico La Beneficencia, where groups of visitors will be formed.

The Turia Gardens are a space of indisputable urban, social and heritage value that has evolved with the city since its very foundation. In spite of everything, the awareness that allows us to perceive it in this way is still, to a large extent, yet to be built. The narratives, often focused on the catastrophic floods, have overlooked other types of economic, social and emotional relationships between the city and its river.

The conversion of the river into a garden from 1982 onwards expanded the idea that, before the transformation of the old river into a large green belt, it was a wasteland that was alien to the city. A place where nothing happened.

The result of photographic and documentary archive research, this exhibition tells the story of a reality that was more diverse and complex. The exhibition is divided into three sections: Living on the river, which focuses on the riverbed as a living space; Living from the river, which points out the different uses of resources often related to water; Living the river, which reveals the development of its social and popular use until it became a garden thanks to citizen mobilisation.

Looking at the past shows us how our everyday environment is constantly changing, the result of the evolution of the relationships between people and the environment they inhabit. Observing these processes helps to strengthen the emotional roots that link us to the spaces we inhabit, enjoy and are used to perceiving as natural and familiar.

València was not born with its back to the sea, as is often said, but deliberately facing its river.