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A LITTLE CURIOITY, MANY IDEA

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Draw, compare, observe or imagine: small proposals linked to the stories of Cabeceiras, with steps and sources.

They are activities to explore at your pace, not events with registration. The indicated time is that of reading support.

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22 proposals in this selection

Crafts and memories

Builds the idea on paper

The wood also keeps the wine

Pipes, barrels and barrels tell a business story.

crafts · Faia, Basto and Refojos

See the 3 steps
  1. Draw a container with several vertical pieces and two or three rims around it.
  2. Identify the plasters and rims; mark which parts form the wall and which parts involve it.
  3. Compare with the wooden punch of the reading of Outeiro. Write a difference between digging/disguising one piece and joining several.

Conceptual scheme on paper, without reproducing tools or a local workshop.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Discover the function of each material

Wood inside, glow outside

The furniture of the sacristy brings together materials with different functions.

Refojos · furniture of the sacristy

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws three layers and writes brown, jacaranda and brass.
  2. Associates structure, coating and decoration to the corresponding layer.
  3. Returns to the text of the restoration: what elements have been removed before treating wood?

Scheme made from the documentary description, without touching or intervening in the pieces.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Draws the journey from a recipe

A recipe that has crossed continents

The lemon cookies came with a family story.

Refojos · family memory published in 2020

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws three points: the magazine, the family kitchen in Mozambique and the museum.
  2. Connect them and score about 1966 and 2020 at the corresponding moments.
  3. Pick a recipe you know and record what you know about who transmitted it.

It uses dates as references to family memory, without inventing steps that the source does not count.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

Draw a street of memories

A street also guards trades

School, trade, and work made the living of the place.

Pereiras, Refojos · memory of the decade 1960

See the 3 steps
  1. Make four cards: learn, work, buy and play.
  2. Connects each card to an activity or place referred to in history.
  3. Adds available dates; leaves blank what the article does not allow accurately dating.

Activity from sources and readings; does not require displacement or manipulation of historical pieces.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Draw the journey of an object

From Refojos to Coimbra, a history in motion

Objects also go through changes in institutions.

Refojos and Coimbra · historical route of the chalice

See the 3 steps
  1. Write three names on a sheet: Refojos, Colégio de São Bento and Sé de Coimbra. Call them in the order described.
  2. Join the Machado de Castro Museum and write next to what the record confirms about the piece.
  3. Check only the dates provided in the text; leave a question where information is missing.

A reading and drawing activity, no displacements.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Try watching

When football won the field

The Pereiras are also part of sports memory.

Pereiras, Refojos · football in the 20th century

See the 3 steps
  1. Mark 1925 and 1982 on a timeline.
  2. Write to each date the documented event.
  3. Think of a playing space you know: what memories of a place stay when that space changes?

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

Try watching

A little pagela kept a collective concern

Devotion also left marks on paper.

Refojos · devotional memory of unknown date

See the 3 steps
  1. Read the message and find the three groups you're addressing.
  2. It distinguishes the known date of publication of the unknown date of the object.
  3. If you hold a photograph or a family role, note that information has really written and that part depends on a memory.

A proposal to make at your pace, without collecting copies.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Between rivers and mountains

Read the change in three layers

A stream in the history of Casa do Tempo

The renovation of the village centre also passed through the water.

Refojos · opening in 2013 and urban transformation

See the 3 steps
  1. Draws three boxes: buildings, public spaces and riverside.
  2. In each box, he writes an intervention mentioned in history.
  3. Turn on the boxes and explain how the project approached memory and use of the village.

Documentary scheme; the available photograph shows the exterior of the Casa do Tempo, not the stream.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Read a painted table

A table painted over three centuries ago

Dishes, cutlery and napkins also tell stories.

Refojos · painting of 1703, studied in 2011

See the 3 steps
  1. List the objects highlighted in the study: dishes, salt shakers, cutlery and napkins.
  2. Make a free scheme of these objects and identify it as drawing from the description, not as copy of the painting.
  3. Separate three references: date of work, date of study and missing information about the current exposure.

Proposal on paper or on screen, from reading and its sources. It does not require visit, collection of objects or confirmation of current conditions.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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The flavours of Cabeceiras

Corn: grain, flour or pasta?

A recipe learned at parties

Shroud popes also tell how knowledge circulates.

Refojos · kitchen memory collected by the Museum

See the 3 steps
  1. Find the form of corn in Helena's popes and in the thousands.
  2. Open the popes of Gondiães and compare the preparation and occasion described.
  3. Writes an ingredient difference and a context difference: the word popes does not mean a single recipe.

Compare the collections; do not combine the steps of different recipes.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Crafts and memories

What do you see in a party chronicle?

New chestnuts and clay mugs

The memory of the party also has flavors.

Refojos · flavours described in 1956

See the 3 steps
  1. It makes three groups: transport, products and table.
  2. Distributes to the groups the elements mentioned in the excerpt of 1956.
  3. Compare the new chestnut from the party with the dry chestnut saved for the crops.

Activity from sources and readings; does not require displacement or manipulation of historical pieces.

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Support reading: about 1 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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Time travel

Look at the details.

Two organs, one of them mute

An invitation to look beyond the facade.

Refojos · art and architecture

See the 3 steps
  1. Compare the organ view with the two details: find the tubes, figures and gold elements.
  2. Notice repeated shapes and different heights of the tubes. The photograph allows distinguishing these elements, but not listening to the instrument.
  3. Read again the municipal description: an isolated photograph does not confirm which of the two organs is the mute.

You can make this proposal with the image and the text of the story, without moving.

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Support reading: about 2 min. The activity takes place at your pace.

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