Mid-Autumn Festival Schools Program

Dates: Term 3: 6 Sept - 17 Sept & Term 4: 4 Oct – 29 Oct 2021

Duration: 2 hours

Cost: $17.50 per student (minimum 15 students)

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a 3000-year-old tradition when the full moon appears largest in the sky. Celebrating family re-union, this festival program explores moon legends and traditional practices such as lantern making, riddle guessing, moon cake making and Chinese tea ceremony.

Two-hour tour includes: Moon cake demonstration, Lantern making, Moon legend stories and Museum tour.

Travelling Museum option: Prefer the Mid-Autumn Festival program to come to your school? Contact us below to make an enquiry.

Victorian Curriculum: Visual Arts Levels 3-10; History Levels 3-10; Intercultural Capability Levels 3-10; Languages (Chinese) Levels 3-10; Specifically: History / Levels 3 and 4 / Historical Knowledge / Community, remembrance and celebrations.

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Mid-Autumn Festival Schools Program

The Mid-Autumn Festival Education Program explores moon legends and traditional practices such as lantern making, riddle guessing, moon cake making and Chinese tea ceremony. Excursions and incursions available.
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The Chinese Museum’s building, located in the heart of Chinatown, was built by the Cohen Bros. in 1890 and used originally as a furniture warehouse. It was acquired in 1984 by the Victorian State Government to enable the establishment of a Museum to provide the heritage and cultural foundation for Melbourne’s Chinatown.
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