OTE GROUP

• To reach the new generations so that:

- to feel pleasant and familiar in a space of culture (familiarity, museum culture)

-to "hear" the history of telecommunications through a hands-on experience.

• To attract the interest of a variety of visitors of different ages and interests.
• To contribute to the digital education of the public (using new technologies & applications).
• The goal of digitization is a priority for the Museum and the entire company
• To combine technology with various forms of expression, such as art, theater, experiment, etc
• To bring families closer (family connection) through actions that strengthen communication between them. In any case, the main goal is to create positive and unique experiences for all visitors

Within eight (8) years, the Museum has been carrying out educational programs for school groups, individual visitors and families.

More specifically, we address:

• school groups (Kindergarten, Primary & High School students).
• children 4-6 & 8-14 years old respectively (depending on the content of the respective family program) and to the parents.

The public, of different ages and interests, comes into contact with and gets to know the history of telecommunications through the use of digital media and new technological applications. With the online reservation system, the Museum enables all visitors, with a single click, to book all programs quickly and easily. In this way, we give additional accessibility features to visitors.

Training programs are held every school/academic season, starting in October and ending in May. Indicatively, in the period 2010-2017, a total of 746 programs were carried out.

The Telecommunications Museum, as a multifaceted cultural institution of informal education, carries out educational programs that express its policy of extroversion and its dynamic relationship with society.

The contact of young people with both the history and the modern applications of technology strengthens our belief that technology is the necessary vehicle for the professional and social integration of young people in modern society. With the power of technology, it opens a creative dialogue between yesterday and today, bringing the history of telecommunications closer to modern telecommunications developments.

Programs are held five times a week for school groups and two Sundays each month for individual visitors and families.

More specifically, the educational programs for school groups include:

Art workshops

Technological laboratories

Environmental programs

Internet safety programs

Theatrical show

Family programs include activities for children and parents. For the 2017-2018 season, nine different family programs were planned and implemented.

For example, we mention the following:

"Access all areas! Get into the role! » : An exciting role-playing game using technology! Children become museologists, archivists and conservators and learn from Museum professionals about documenting, preserving, classifying and storing objects. An experiential experience that brings children closer to modern museum reality. "Virtual & Augmented Reality Museum Labs": Through virtual and augmented reality applications, children are teleported in space and time, and are photographed in front of a special photobooth.

"Magical Museum Tours": Through original and inventive actions, visitors experience the magic of the Museum's exhibits up close. Acrobatic and juggling skills of real jugglers, tricks with fluorescent juggling objects, formation of telecommunication codes with magical techniques introduce visitors to the magical world of communication

"Engraving with inspiration...from the hands of children!": Telephones, inventions and historical moments of communication become inspiration for engravings with unprecedented techniques! Inside the specially designed engraving workshop, expert engravers explain and show visitors the original technique of engraving sugar and ink to print their own artwork at the end

• ICOM (International Council of Museums)
• CECA (International Committee for Education and Cultural Action)
• TICCIH (International Commission for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage)
• CIMUSET (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology)

The staff of the Telecommunications Museum actively participates, in collaboration with specialized external partners, in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the programs.

The Museum has a special multi-purpose space that serves the needs of the various programs and actions it implements every year. Part of the educational programs are also implemented in the exhibition spaces of the Museum's permanent exhibition.

Since 2010, the educational programs of the Telecommunications Museum contribute significantly to the increase of the Museum's visitors. In total, the programs were attended by 30,710 visitors, of which:

• 26,220 Children
• 4,490 Adults

In addition, the Museum was visited by 830 people from different sensitive social groups.

The educational programs of the Telecommunications Museum contribute to indirect corporate visibility and strengthen the corporate image.

The Telecommunications Museum received this year (2018), for the first time, the honorary distinction of Honored Museum in Greece by the Greek section of ICOM (International Council of Museums)