...presentation about cooperation of Prague City Gallery with foreign visitors + their integration... ...for international project UNITES – Integrating Cities... Prague, September 2023 https://integratingcities.eu/projects/unites-2022-2024/

1. Gallery and Museum as Open Space
Cooperation of Prague City Gallery
with foreign visitors + their integration
presentation for international project UNITES – Integrating Cities

2. Structure of presentation
• Prague City Gallery – introduction of institution and of educational
activities
• Foreign visitors as important target group
- schools, students, tourists, refugees, minorities, communities
• Services for foreign visitors: exhibitions, expositions, spaces, promotion,
workshopes, programmes
• Communication and integration, development and context
• Cooperation with organizations for integration of foreigners
• Interesting and inspirational examples of good practice
• Other activities of Prague City Gallery – cooperation with foreign
countries
• Visions, possibilities, plans

3. Prague City Gallery – introduction of institution
• founded in 1963, specialization: modern and contemporary art – mainly
Czech art (20.+21. century)
• 7 buildings + external archives
• collections of drawings, paintings, photography and graphics - about
16 000 artefacts
• collection of sculptures + installations in public space - about 400 sculpt.
• collection of artefacts created by František Bílek, Slav Epic by Alfons
Mucha
• cca 60 zaměstnanců, 7 oddělení
/odborné, restaurátorské a edukační odd. + odd. správy objektů, ekonomické, výstavní a
propagační odd./

4. Buildings of Prague City Gallery
- very attractive location
- mainly in the centre of Prague
(P1+P6+P7) + South Bohemia
Stone Bell House P1
Municipal Library P1
Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace P1
House of Photography P1
Troja Château P7
Villa Bílek P6
Bílek´s House in Chýnov SB

5. Stone Bell House (Old Town Square, Prague 1)
gothic royal palace (13th century)

6. Municipal Library – 2nd floor (Mariánské square , Prague 1)
functionalist building (20th century)

7. Troja Château (Praha 7)
baroque chateau (17th century)

8. Troja Château
ceilings with baroque painting

9. Troja Château
baroque stairs with sculptures of greek goods and mythology

10. Troja Château
baroque stairs with sculptures of greek goods and mythology

11. Troja Château
gardens in French style

12. Villa Bílek (Prague 6)
villa in art nouveau and symbolist style (19/20th century)

13. Villa Bílek (Prague 6)
sculptures inside of the villa

14. Bílek´s House in Chýnov (Chýnov u Tábora, South Bohemia)
house in art nouveau and symbolist style (19/20th century)

15. Bílek´s House in Chýnov
sculptures inside of the house

16. Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (Prague 1)
palace in baroque and rococo style (17/18th century)

17. Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (Prague 1)
concert hall

18. Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (Prague 1)
ceilings with painting in baroque style

19. Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace (Prague 1)
interiors

20. House of Photography (Prague 1)
house in functionalist style (20th century)

21. Educational department
team: 3 educators, 1 librarian, about 10 Czech external lectors and 6 from
Ukraine
main tasks: conception, organization and realization of educational activities
Educational activities – types of activities – all also for foreign visitors:
- interactive guided tour with workshops for schools
- workshops for families, adults, seniors and so on
- art courses
- lectures, walks, discussions, debates
- curator´s, author´s and lector´s guided tours
- activities for disadvantaged visitors
- workshops with artitsts
- extraordinary events
(performances, film, theatre, dance & so on)
- workshops in cooperation
with instututions & organizations
- trips

22. Photos – spaces for education
Educational centre - atelier Educational centre - chill out room
Villa Bílek – reading room Troja Chateau – Eco-studio

23. Foreign visitors as important target group
Structure of visitors in Prague City Gallery:
- all types of schools
- families with children
- disadvantaged
- adults
- seniors
+
- Foreign visitors
- tourists (groups, individual visitors)
- school, students (visits, excursions, internships)
+
- guests – cooperation with international institutions
- refugees, minorities, communities of foreign visitors

24. Services for foreign visitors: exhibitions, expositions, spaces,
promotion, workshops, programmes
- maximal service for foreign visitors
- the standards include this service - all bilingual (Czech + English language):
names of artefacts at exhibitions
texts at exhibitions
accompanying materials
promotional materials
orientation system
press releases
website
catalogs from exhibitions - reading room
printed brochures and "guides" - also in multiple languages
+ translation of PR materials about Educational centre & Eco-studio into 5
languages of the biggest communities of foreigners in Czech Republic (English,
Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Spanish, Russian) thanks to project Prague – the
Metropolis for All

25. Communication and integration, development and context
- integration of foreigners is important part of activities of Prague City
gallery for many years (during last 18 years it´s very intensive)
- specialists (external lectors) for guided tours in different languages
- printed guides and brochures in various languages
- workshops and art activities - "art is an international (universal)
language" (this communication through visual art is very easy to
understand)
- art is the best way for foreigner visitors and children to join the
collective and to communicate – so it´s the best way for integration
- cooperation with the Department of National Minorities and Foreigners
of the Prague City Hall - support, consultation, promotion of events,
networking - for many years + cooperation with other similar
organizations
- since 2014 (9 years) activities for children from Ukraine (children who
lost their parents during the R-U conflict in the east of Ukraine) – summer
and winter camps – big experiences with this topic

26. Cooperation with organizations for integration of foreigners
Department of National Minorities and Foreigners of Prague City Hall
Integration Center Prague
Association for Integration and Migration
Integration Consultancy
Ukrainian-European perspective
In Base
RefuFest
Regional Consultation Platform Prague
Prague - Metropolis for All (project of the City of Prague to support the
integration of foreigners, supported by Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Rep.)
+ 9 years of experiences of GHMP educators with activities for the Ukrainian
community + training & certificate from the Integration Consultancy - working
with foreign visitors in museums & galleries

27. Interesting and inspirational examples of good practice
- many examples of good practice with working with foreign visitors
- the biggers experiences are with activities for Ukrainian refugees
- more information about cooperation with Ukrainian refugees later

28. Providing jobs to foreigners
- cooperation with external lectors from Ukraine
- team of 6 external educators and lectors
- planned cooperation with about 10 students from AVU and other artists – on
realizations of workshops
- main task: translations of texts and educational papers, interpretation of
events, realization of workshops tours of exhibitions and objects in Ukrainian
- support from UNICEF
- salary for lectors from Ukraine + art material

29. Cooperation with schools with foreign students
- visits of Prague schools with foreign students and pupils
- visits to schools and institutions from abroad - excursions + presentation
- internships of foreign students
Cooperation with foreign teachers
Campaign for drawing (2007)
- visit of GHMP by a group of educators from various European capitals
(presentation of GHMP educational activities)
App Your School (2016 - 2019)
- cooperation of the educational department of Prague City Gallery with an
international project
- international meetings in Bologna & other cities
- cooperation with University of Bologna, Centro Zaffiria (Rimini), European
Development Agency and so on
- 8 countries (Italy, Finland, Turkey, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Greece, Czech Rep.)
- main topic: using of new media in education
- concept of so-called "digital ateliers" - model 6-hour workshops
- 2 publications: European manual (40 digital ateliers – workshops), National toolkit

32. Cooperation with Czech centres
- cooperation with Czech centres for many years (about 10 years)
- workshops in the Czech Center Prague
- presentations of foreign art with links to the Czech Republic (children from
the families of diplomats and ambassadors)
- many foreign visitors
- realized in cooperation with many institutions and embassies

33. Experience with national and religious minorities
(children of Roma nationality, Jewish school, etc.)
- clubs for children from socially disadvantaged families
- schools from locations, where many socially disadvantaged people live
- cooperation with the Jewish community in Prague - the so-called Lauder
school

34. Other ativities of Prague City Gallery – cooperation with foreign
countries
- exhibitions of foreign artists in Czech Republic (Richard Deacon, Tim
Burton, David Cronenberg, Eduard Steinberg, Jean Delville, Frida Kahlo
and so on)
- exhibitions of Czech artists abroad (for example Slav epic by Alphonse
Mucha in Japan)

35. Visions, possibilities, plans
- systematical cooperation with foreign schools
- intensive cooperation with institution and organization for integration of
foreigners and refugees
- development of coopertion with UNICEF
- expending of external educational team with foreign lectors
- expending of financial support to provide jobs for them

36. Thank you for your attention.
Educational department of Prague City Gallery
Mgr. Lucie Haškovcová, Ph.D., Mgr. Markéta Slachová Goldová, Mgr. Jolana Lažová, Ph.D.
contact: edukace@ghmp.cz, 606612987
www.ghmp.cz