Museus virtuais e cibermuseus como estratégia de inserção das artes visuais no cotidiano escolar

Abstract

The present article intends to reflect about the multiple functions of art in our society, discussing the fact that society's development in terms of relationships, respect and social and economic equality has not followed the scientific and technological development. It intends to depict, according to Critic Theory, particularly about the matter of Cultural Industry, theorized by Adorno, aspects that block the realization of art's revolutionary and transformative potential. With regard to school institutions, focusing on Belo Horizonte municipal public schools, it considers the paradoxical interaction of reproductive and emancipating aspects in its organization and curriculum. Also, it intends to present how the resource of cyber museums and virtual museums visitations, although they enhance hegemonic points of view in some aspects, are, above all, tools that may contribute to students' knowledge and emancipation.