Món Sant Benet aspires to be an exciting and stimulating learning experience for school groups. Our specially designed activities ensure that schoolchildren will have fun and, at the same time, broaden their horizons.
Món Sant Benet offers three types of visit: mediaeval, modernist, or Fundació Alícia, as well as a programme of educational workshops. Moreover, the children will be able to spend an unforgettable day in these fantastic surroundings. All in all, Món Sant Benet fully intends to become an unmissable educational experience for schools in Catalonia.
For more information, contact:
serveididactic@monstbenet.com
Telephone: +34 93 875 94 01
Learn about the Monastery through a story and related game.
Interactive game set in the mediaeval period, through which participants can relive the relationships between the ranks.
Understanding architecture using scale models.
Interactive game set in feudal times where participants can relive the struggles for power.
The construction of the Monastery through the ages, using scale models.
Mediaeval cookery workshop to learn about and enjoy new tastes.
Learn about mediaeval society through its culinary habits.
Workshop to learn about and taste XVIII century cuisine.
Learn about and experiment with different fruits through a story and a small cookery workshop.
Play a game to discover the importance of having a good breakfast.
Let taste and smell guide you through this workshop of sensory perception and experimentation.
Hands-on workshop to learn about activity and the expenditure of energy.
Develop good eating habits by learning about culinary diversity and tasting recipes from around the world.
The kitchen: a laboratory for scientific experimentation.
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This workshop takes place at the Fundació Alícia, and is led by a chemist. There is a choice of five workshops, all of which are hands-on, and concentrate on the relationship between chemistry and cookery.
Impossible combinations
A practical exercise showing the difficulties in combining water with fat (for example, water with oil) and how cookery solves them using emulsifying agents, such as the egg in mayonnaise.
Acid, or not acid – that is the question
A series of experiments in which the pH levels of various products are measured and the effects of the different degrees of acidity on the food (taste, colour) are assessed.
Discover culinary phenomena
A workshop which explains the process of osmosis which takes place in many cooking processes. For example, it is osmosis that causes ham to lose a certain amount of water, causing the dehydration which allows for its conservation.
The soft world
A workshop which allows groups to experiment with jellifiers, observing their effects on liquids, and reactions to heat, salts, etc.
Cooking with colour
A look at the hidden colours in foods and the effects that different conditions (acidity, oxidization, heat, etc.) can have.
Healthy fast food workshop.
Be yourself! Workshop on preventing alimentary disorders.
Creative workshop using river pebbles.
Creative workshop, using earth as paint.
Experimental workshop using the latest techniques.
Workshop based on painting in the style of these great modern artists.
