At the Château
The Château’s educational department organises various day-long or half-day workshops for pupils to explore a specific theme under the supervision of a guide. Beginning with a time of group discovery and learning, the workshop then involves exercises or scenarios tailored to different age groups, from infant through to secondary school.
For our youngest visitors, fun tours or histo-adventures show them what Chambord was like in the past, under the supervision of a guide in costume.
In addition to the usual programme, the teaching team, assisted by a History teacher, can put together suitable sessions in advance with teachers who have a specific class project in mind.
For our youngest visitors, fun tours or histo-adventures show them what Chambord was like in the past, under the supervision of a guide in costume.
In addition to the usual programme, the teaching team, assisted by a History teacher, can put together suitable sessions in advance with teachers who have a specific class project in mind.
- Architecture
Day-long workshop
Numbers: no more than 30 pupils
Level: Ages 9-18 and adult courses.
Times: 9.30am-12pm/1.30pm-4pm
Price: €200 - Network Workshop - CLOS LUCE
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Are you planning to take your pupils to both the Châteaux of Chambord and du Clos Lucé? The two educational departments have put together a workshop giving an insight into two aspects of Leonardo da Vinci’s genius: architecture and drawing.
Level: Ages 9-15 - From lodge to apartment
Half-day workshop
Participants: maximum of 30 pupils
Levels: Ages 9-15.
Times: 9.30am-12pm or 1.30pm-4pm
Price: €110
After defining the types of accommodation and naming the rooms, furniture and decoration of the houses, pupils study the development of the château’s various lodges, dating from the 16th to the 18th century. They then reconstitute models of rooms from the different periods. - A historian’s perspective
Half-day workshop
Participants: maximum of 30 students
Levels: Ages 9-18
Times: 9.30am-12pm or 1.30pm-4pm
Price: €110
There has been no lack of images made of the château’s main facades, from its earliest days in the Renaissance right up to the present day. After a careful look at the facades themselves, putting prints, drawings, and old and contemporary photographs in the right order leads to the drawing up of a chronology of the construction of the château and its surroundings. - Materials and guilds
Half-day or full-day workshop
Level: Ages 7-15
Times: 9.30am/12pm and/or 1.30pm/4pm
Price: €110 or €200
Using all their five senses, pupils explore the monument to discover the various materials employed in its construction, how they were used, where they came from, and the different building trades to which they are linked.
In the full-day version, they are then introduced to the basics of tufa sculpture, under the eye of a professional stone dresser. - Reconstructing
Pupils take a close look at all of the château’s facades, then use the information they have gathered to help them build a wooden model of the monument.
Level: Ages 8 to 18
Complementary workshop: Surveys & Plans.
Price: €110 - Daily Life
Half-day workshop
Participants: maximum of 30 pupils
Level: Ages 8-15
Times: 9.30am-12pm or 1.30pm- 4pm
Price: €110
After familiarising themselves with social organisation and the daily life of a travelling king and his court, pupils act out François I’s arrival at Chambord, furnishing a lodging, and putting the different areas of the château in relation with the requirements of the time.
