Activities for Families and the Public

Kind reminder:

Welcome to bring cameras for photo-taking

Timetable of workshops will be announced in exhibition gallery.

Location	Activities	Audience
Interactive Games
1st Fl	Make a Pose - Santa Claus	No age limit
	Personal Picture Postcard	No age limit
	Design Your Own Stamp	No age limit
	Large Stamp Projection	No age limit
2nd Fl	Greenscreen Studio	No age limit
	Labyrinth of Electric Circuits	No age limit
Workshops
1st Fl	Bunny X'mas Card	Family
	X'mas Postal Car	Family
2nd Fl	Labyrinth of Electric Circuits	Family

Booking Activities for Schools & Institutes

Kind reminder:

Welcome to bring cameras for photo-taking.

The duration of visit is around 60~90 minutes, including interactive games or free visit time.

We appreciate very much that teachers and helpers would assist us in taking care of visitors during the visit.

If seats are needed, please inform us upon reservation.

Code	Activities	Audience
General Guided Visit + Workshop
(G2)S1-001-A	Basic Guided Visit + Bunny X'mas Card	Kindergarten 2 to Primary 3
(G2)S1-001-B	Basic Guided Visit + X'mas Postal Car	Primary 4 to 6
Thematic Guided Visits + Interactive Game
S2-004	Perfect Decoding Detective + Word-Fishing Fun	Primary 1 to 3
S2-005	Ultimate Decoding Detective + Word-Fishing Fun	Primary 4 to 6
	Other Interactive Games	Refer to activities for the public

Interactive Games

Make a Pose - Santa Claus

Welcome to bring cameras and take photos at the Santa Claus background!

Personal Picture Postcard

After taking the picture and selecting the background, visitors can print their postcards by placing their Entrance Cards against the card reader. In addition to mailing the postcard by buying a stamp at the Museum Shop, visitors can also download their postcards from the museum website (http://macao.communications.museum/eng/services/postcard/index.html) by inputting the code printed on the upper right-hand corner of the postcard. Moreover they can write their own messages and email the postcard to their friends.

Design Your Own Stamp

Visitors can choose their favorite images and backgrounds to compose the stamps. Then they can print out the stamps by activating the printer with their Entrance Cards. After perforating the stamps, visitors can use it to make bookmarks or other items.

Large Stamp Projection

Show virtual Christmas and Year of the Rabbit stamps from all over the world.

Greenscreen Studio

Visitors can choose the background and then take photos by activating the camera with their Entrance Cards. They can choose among the colored, nostalgic or black-and-white printing effects. If you want to try being "invisible", you may hold the green cloth and then see what happens.

Labyrinth of Electric Circuits

Communications Museum designs and creates this interactive game by making use of the characteristics of conductors and insulators and the theories of closed electric circuits. Smart visitors like you can surely find the way out from the labyrinth!

Word-Fishing Fun

This activity requires advance booking. This interactive word encoding and decoding game is suitable for Primary students.

Workshops

Bunny X'mas Card

This activity is for the public. For family visitors, the parents may make the special Christmas card together with their children. All materials will be provided by Communications Museum. The timetable of the workshop will be announced in the exhibition gallery.

X'mas Postal Car

This activity is for the public. For family visitors, the parents may make the special Christmas postal car together with their children. All materials will be provided by Communications Museum. The timetable of the workshop will be announced in the exhibition gallery.

Labyrinth of Electric Circuits

This activity is for the public. For family visitors, the parents may make the labyrinth of electric circuits together with their children. All materials will be provided by Communications Museum. The timetable of the workshop will be announced in the exhibition gallery.

General Guided Visit

Basic Guided Visit

This general guided visit requires advance booking. It is suitable for students from Kindergarten 2 to Primary 6. Facilitators will guide a simple tour of the major exhibitions in the museum.

Thematic Guided Visit

Perfect Decoding Detective

This thematic guided visit requires advance booking. It is suitable for students from Primary 1 to 3. We shall explain the process of coding, sending, receiving and decoding to students by means of some communication methods used in the old days. Kangaroo Ah Sing will introduce his various ID cards and their usages. Have you ever noticed your student ID and number? What kinds of messages are included? You are invited to be the detective to decode this.

Ultimate Decoding Detective

This thematic guided visit requires advance booking. It is suitable for students from Primary 4 to 6. From the different ID cards that Kangaroo Ah Sing has, we realize that not only ID cards include a lot of encoded and personal information. In our daily lives, food, clothing, housing and transportation are also encoded. Students will be invited to be the detective to investigate on the advantages of coding and to use decoding tools to discover the hidden messages on the coded objects.