The VEriTage Teachers’ Kit

This page is dedicated to teachers, trainers and educators. It presents some samples of the Activities and all the single Activities in their pdf printable version.
Before exploring the Activities, please carefully read the introduction to get the framework and to know more on the methodology we are proposing you.

Introduction to the Activities

The VEriTage Teachers’ Kit
Image caption: Francis Basset in 1778 on the Grand Tour in Rome – Prado, Madrid. Portrait by Pompeo Batoni..

The Grand Tour

The context of this exercise is inspired by the concept of the Grand Tour, a term that refers to the European tour that the young people belonging to the aristocracy, in particular English, did, as a path of personal and cultural formation, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Grand Tour

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Image caption: Florilegius / SSPL / Getty Images

The Dark side of chocolate

The exercise focuses on a product – chocolate – that is part of the cultural heritage of different countries, both in Europe and in the world and looks at it from two different points of view.

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The dark side of chocolate

Novel food

The context from which the exercise takes inspiration is the new Novel Food Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. “It aims to improve the conditions, so that businesses can bring new and innovative food to the EU market more easily, while still maintaining a high level of food safety for European consumers.

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Novel food

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Image caption: a screening of “Bugs” by Andreas Johansen as part of “ Eat:Ith ”.

The Food Museum

The exercise is inspired by the recent ICOM proposal – the main international organization that represents museums and its professionals – of a new definition of museum, alternative to the current one where Museums “are democratising, inclusive and polyphonic spaces for critical dialogue about the pasts and the futures”.

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Food Museum

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Image caption: photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra – “Francesco Garnier Valletti” Fruit Museum of Turin (Italy).

The workbook

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