Educational Programs by the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum for the 2025–2026 school year

 

Since its foundation, the Educational Programs Department of the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum has been designing and implementing programs for all grades of Primary and Secondary Education, as well as for families, adults, and people with disabilities. The goal of these programs is to create space and time for new knowledge, placing at the center the cultivation of critical thinking and the activation of students’ creative abilities, through a multisensory approach to the Museum’s Collections.

 

For the 2025–2026 school year, two new educational programs have been designed, which take place within the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition.

 

 

The program titled “A Cretan Picnic with Kazantzakis” invites children to discover the flavors of Crete through the eating habits of Nikos Kazantzakis, connecting food with culture and the joy of companionship. Guided by our senses, we explore the tastes of Crete: we smell, taste, and touch, we imagine Kazantzakis’ table, and we travel through the world of the Cretan diet.

 

This program has been developed and is implemented within the framework of the project “Crete – European Region of Gastronomy 2026”. It is addressed to kindergarten groups as well as 1st and 2nd grade primary school students.

 

 

 

The second program, “A Journey to Knossos”, is designed for 3rd and 4th grade primary school students. Inspired by Kazantzakis’ description in his classic children’s novel “At the Palaces of Knossos”, students will unravel the myth and history of the Minoan civilization. Through the author’s words, they will imagine the heroes of the story and bring to life the real inhabitants of Knossos.

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to these new programs for the 2025–2026 school year, the Museum will continue to offer its established educational programs, which you can explore at the website.

 

 

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The Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, consistently serving its educational and social role, expands its geographical boundaries by providing educational services to the student community that is unable to visit the Museum due to distance or other access difficulties.

 

Thus, school groups have the opportunity to learn about the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis through:

• • The “Educational Museum Kit for Nikos Kazantzakis” was created with the exclusive funding of the Region of Crete with the aim of bringing students intocontact with the author’s form and work, the Museum and its Collections. It is aimed at students in 3rd – 6th grade of Primary, Middle and High School and includes material specially adapted to be partially accessible to students with visual impairments. The Museum Kit is available free of charge to schools in all regions of Greece, as well as to Greek-speaking schools abroad.

 

 

 

• • • The digital educational programs available to the Museum through the Museotek platform are:

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. “Journey without Borders…” for students in 4th, 5th and 6th grade of Primary School, which has as its theme the travels of Nikos Kazantzakis
            2. “Look, Think, Create @ MNK” for students in all grades of Middle School and High School, in which they discover how to read a work of art from the Museum’s Collection
            3. “Tour of the Kazantzakis Museum” which gives the opportunity to school groups in 2nd – 3rd grade of Middle School and High School to digitally visit the Permanent Exhibition of the Museum through an interactive tour. It is also available in English.

 

 

For a detailed description of the Museum’s educational programs, please visit the page Schools.

 

To participate in the educational programs held at the Nikos Kazantzakis Museum and for more information, please contact the Museum’s museum educator, either by phone at 2810 741689 from Monday to Friday 09:00 – 15:00, or by email at edu@kazantzaki.gr.