The Bauhaus Dessau welcomes school classes of all age groups and from all kinds of schools. To integrate the Bauhaus in your lesson plan, we offer a range of topics and methods. We are also happy to address any special wishes or requirements that you may have. Please contact us so that we can plan your class trip.
Guided tours
Our guided tours for pupils are journeys of discovery, rich in variety. They comprise a series of modules, each methodically building on the other, at multiple locations. Duration 90 minutes.
Workshops
In our 60-minute workshops, pupils have an opportunity to explore a topic in greater depth.
We also offer a package comprising guided tour and workshop, with a break of at least 30 minutes between the two formats.
Information and bookings
Visitor Services Schools
Nicole Prag
besuch@bauhaus-dessau.de
T +49 340 6508-251
A day with pupils at the UNESCO World Heritage site
Our historic Bauhaus buildings are valuable and extremely sensitive structures that are visited by many guests from Germany and elsewhere every year. Please ensure that your students are aware of this and that they behave accordingly. For the delivery of jackets, bags and umbrellas, luggage boxes for a complete class or individual lockers with a Euro slot are available in the basement of the workshop wing.
You will find reasonably priced refreshments for your group in the canteen located in the Bauhaus Building. If you intend to use the canteen, please announce your visit directly to the caterer: einfach-besser-essen.de
Primary schools
Ages 8 – 10
Guided tour
Bauhaus detectives
Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Varies according to topic
Price: € 70.00
The interactive guided tour offers a general introduction to the Bauhaus, with your pupils becoming Bauhaus detectives. In competing teams, they investigate a range of locations in the renowned Bauhaus Building. Activity sheets with practical tasks to look into encourage pupils to experiment, investigate and solve problems. Which detective knows the most about the Bauhaus Building and can find the quickest and best answer to the challenges being set?
A) Bauhaus Building
B) Masters’ Houses
C) Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Bauhaus Building or Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The workshop introduces the elementary design vocabulary of the Bauhaus and the ideas of font designer Herbert Bayer. The children invent typographical workpieces and construct an own letter using the elementary forms circle, triangle and square.
Workshop
Photography | Cameraless photograms
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Bauhaus Building or Bauhaus Museum Dessau
The workshop introduces the photogram as a photographic technique. Using sun-sensitive paper, the pupils explore the foundations of analogue photography and experiment with various materials as a design element. Each participant arranges and exposes objects to make their own photogram and can observe the development of the image. Should the workshop take place in the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, original works by László Moholy-Nagy found in the Bauhaus collection will be viewed and discussed.
Duration: 90 minutes
Location: varies according to topic
Price: € 70.00
Bauhaus Building
In the framework of the interactive tour, the pupils experience key places in the Bauhaus Building. Working in teams or pairs, through their own research they learn about design, modern architecture, building materials, colour design and multi-functionality. Activity sheets encourage variously creative and playful approaches to the modern ideas of the Bauhaus, as well as independent discovery and invention.
Masters’ Houses
In the tour, the pupils’ everyday realities are connected to the architecture and design of the Masters’ Houses. What was the concept? What do young people make of the buildings? Activity sheets appeal to the different senses and enable pupils working in teams or pairs to explore construction methods and interior design, colour schemes and the effect of light. The focus at various stations of the tour will be on questions of design for living and the lives of various masters in the houses, as well as on concepts for ideal living cultures, and the organisation of the modern household.
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
In the hands-on and experience-orientated tour the pupils engage with key objects from the collection. There are research projects and tricky problems to solve. Working in teams or pairs, the pupils create “Object fact sheets” that are presented in front of the other groups at the end of the tour.
Workshop
Preliminary course | Works in paper
Ages 11–13; 14–19
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Bauhaus Building or Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Price: € 70.00
In this workshop, pupils work with methods from Josef Albers’ preliminary course. Utilising a playful approach, they discover the material paper, what can be done with it, and its special characteristics.
Workshop
Bauhaus stage | Lines in space
Ages 14 – 19
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Bauhaus Building or Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Price: € 70.00
The “Stäbetanz” (Stick dance) was created by Oskar Schlemmer in the framework of his lessons in the stage workshop. It is one of the Bauhaus Dances – short scenes exploring experimental combinations of movements through the body-space field of tension. Specific materials, and the way in which these affect the movements of the performers, play a pivotal role. Inspired by historic photographs of the “Stäbetanz”, we use sticks to investigate the relationship between the person and the space, and the elementary in the overall composition of space and time. A game situation serves as a starting point to invent own gestures and, from there, to develop a short sequence of movements.
