MENTAL: Interactive Tour
Details
Available: 20 January–17 June, 2022
Sessions: 11am & 1 pm, Tuesday to Friday (please get in touch if the 1pm session is unavailable on your chosen date)
Duration: 90 minutes
Year Level: 7–12
Capacity: 20-50 students
Students are taken on a facilitator-led experience of MENTAL, the inaugural exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne. Through activities, provocations and participatory experiences, students are immersed in a world curated in collaboration with artists, scientists, engineers and young people. They will explore interactive art/science exhibits focusing on the themes of connection, agency, empathy and polyphony of experience.
All interactive tours are delivered through a peer-to-peer model with Science Gallery Learning Facilitators – trained, passionate STEM university students – leading the learning experience.
Content warning: This exhibition contains some intense sensory experiences, confined spaces and lived experience of mental health.
+ Students will…
Undertake a STEM facilitator-led tour of MENTAL, engaging with the key concepts of the exhibition.
Informally engage with University student facilitators to learn about STEM pathways.
Work in teams to undertake short activities relating to exhibition pieces.
Explore the gallery independently, interacting with each of the works.
Reflect and share with the group their experience and the impact of the exhibition.
+ Curriculum Links
Critical and Creative Thinking
Health and Physical Education
Personal and Social Capability
Science
Visual Arts
+ Themes
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Connection
Emotional intelligence
Empathy
Lived experience
Mental health maintenance
Social media
Stereotypes and biases
Technology
Wellbeing
+ Cost
A $50 education service fee applies to each booking plus a cost per student based on the table below (subsidised cost for low-SES and regional schools). All prices are inclusive of GST.
| Number of students | Cost per student | Low-SES cost per student |
|---|---|---|
| 20-50 | $8 | $4 |