Educational activities

The Museum and Archive of the Port of Tarragona propose a joint educational activity with the aim of informing higher and lower secondary students the important task which will be carried out at the Archive and Museum to preserve and disseminate, both as documents and as objectives, the legacy of our past and the key to our present and future.

The activity can be done in the classroom environment with a teaching dossier, or by doing a tour of the two Centres, in which students and teachers can learn, at first hand, about both the work done and the collections on display, accompanied by an instructor who will take you through the activity.

It also aims to immerse students in the scientific discipline of its history.

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Online activity

An educational proposal to work online with the Port of Tarragona Archive photographic collections with the objective of bringing them to a wider audience. The aim is to offer a permanent educational resource that can be explored in a rigorous, engaging and creative way, offering support to educators from Tarragona or elsewhere who may be interested in topics linked to the history of the Port. The activity will be based on a selection of photographs and educational resources designed to stimulate students' curiosity and awaken their spirit of observation and research. It will also foster their ability to empathise through the testimonial images of other historical moments, providing spaces for reflection and debate around these documentary sources in the classroom.

The educational proposal is organised around two themes/focuses of interest:

1. THE SEA, THE PORT AND THE PEOPLE. An approach to port-related trades; the leisure time of the people of the sea; the port or the beach; the various port environments and their relationship with the people over time, observing how they have come to be part of the collective imagination of the people of Tarragona.

2. LIGHTHOUSES, VESSELS AND CRANES. To foster the discovery and evaluation of equipment as historic and essential as lighthouses, cranes or the transport systems of the different types of vessels, integrating understanding of their function within the Port's commercial and industrial activity.

CLICME education. Pedagogical resources, educational materials and photo galleries to work with remotely.

Dossiers in the Tarragona Port Archives Digital Portal

DE L'ARXIU AL MUSEU: un recorregut per la història. El barri del Serrallo. - (From the Archive to the Musuem: a journey through history. The district of El Serrallo.)

Activity with monitor. Duration: 90 minutes.

Through a portfolio designed specifically for the Museum and Archive of the Port, developed by Auriga Cultural Services, it tries to present the Port and maritime heritage of the city and the history of the Port of Tarragona as the backbone and booster of the local territory.

Approaching the methodology of historical research through the study of primary sources, present hypotheses and evaluate and interpret the documents to be able to gain valid objective conclusions, the basis of any scientific study, is what dossier aims to achieve through a research proposal that revolves around a specific theme: El Serrallo and fishing around the year 1930.

To book please contact the Port Archive or the Tarragona Port Museum.

Sample of activity dossier

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CONEIX L'ARXIU AMB EL CAPITÀ APODACA. - (LEARN ABOUT THE ARCHIVE WITH CAPTAIN APODACA)

Limited entrance. Duration: 60 minutes.

It is a theatrical tour, aimed at lower and higher secondary students, in which Captain Apodaca, a Port character, brings to life the history of the Port of Tarragona, while at the same time teaches how the Archive functions, how it obtains its collections and the climatic conditions for preservation of documentation. You will view some documents and the Deposits and Consultation Room on an entertaining tour which also includes the outside of the building and La Plaça de los Carros.

To book please contact the Port Archive.