Dates / Schedules
21st and 28th February, 7th March 2026 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (Pop Art)
21th and 28th March 2026 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm (Papers: Collage, decollage and information)
11, 18 and 25th of April 2026 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (Surrealism)
Course
Museum
Training
As part of the new proposals from the Education and Mediation Department, we present a series of short courses dedicated to exploring significant moments and contexts in the history of modern and contemporary art. Designed as spaces for learning and reflection, these in-person courses offer a close engagement with the museum’s collections and exhibitions, inviting participants to revisit works, artists, an movements that shaped the development of 20th- and 21st-century art. Understanding an artist’s work involves not only grasping their ideas but also observing how those ideas take material form. Learning also means experimenting; and by connecting theoretical knowledge to practice, we discover that making is a powerful way of understanding. Following an artist’s creative process through hands-on experimentation thus becomes a privileged pathway into learning.
Lasting six or nine hours, these courses offer a focused and accessible training experience, combining historical perspectives with direct encounters with artworks. This new strand of the Educational Programme strengthens the MAC/ CCB’s commitment to promoting knowledge, critical thinking, enjoyment, and experimentation, affirming the museum as a space for lifelong learning.
Cristina Gameiro
Head of Education and Mediation, MAC/CCB
The Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation reserves the right to collect, store and use recordings of image, sound and voice, for the purposes of dissemination and for preserving the memory of its cultural and artistic activities, as well as its spaces. Should you require any further information, please contact us at the following email address: privacidade@ccb.pt
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Pop Art
POP ART – From Dada Anti-Art to Contemporary Mass Culture
21 and 28 February, 7 March from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Bold and provocative, Pop Art stands as a visual revolution that transforms the everyday into art and mass culture into social critique. In this short course, we travel from the audacity of Dadaism to the chromatic explosions of the contemporary era, exploring how artists reinvented the relationships between art, life, and consumption. Through manifestos, iconic works, and creative exercises, we invite participants to break with convention and experience the vibrant spirit of anti-art, here and now.
Concept and guidance Fabrícia Valente
€45 participant
Registration required by 9 February (Minimum 12 pax / Maximum 25 pax)
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PAPERS: COLLAGE, DÉCOLLAGE, AND INFORMATION
21 and 28 March from 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Paper played an essential role linking modern art to mass culture. After Toulouse-Lautrec transformed the poster into a modern medium of experimentation, printed paper (newspapers, magazines, posters, postcards, or invitations) continued to inspire artists throughout the 20th century.
In this workshop, we revisit three key moments in this genealogy: collage in the early avant-gardes (1910s–1930s); street poster décollages (1950s and 1960s); and information as art in conceptual practices (1970s).
Concept and guidance Sofia Nunes
€45 participant
Registration required by 2 March (Minimum 12 pax / Maximum 25 pax)
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Surrealisms
From the Freedom and Dreamscape of the Roaring 1920s to Today’s Need to Envision Alternative Worlds
11, 18 and 25 April from 10:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Born between dream and delirium, Surrealism emerged from a desire to escape a grey reality, opening doors to imagination, chance, and the unconscious. Taking the museum’s Surrealist works as our starting point, this short course revisits a movement that freed artistic creation and inspired generations. Through poetry and artistic experimentation, we explore how the surreal continues to offer refuge and reinvention in a world still in need of dreaming.
Concept and guidance Fabrícia Valente
€45 participant
Registration required by 30 March (Minimum 12 pax / Maximum 25 pax)
Data sheet
Photo: Jacques Villeglé_Libération – Thorez, 22 août 1964, 1964_Col. Berardo