Desafios e perspectivas para educação museal

Abstract

This article presents challenges for museal education, proposing a number of ways to make possible to museums to expand the service they provide to schools. Taking as reference the discussions of the 50’s and those of the ‘Round Table on the Development and the Role of Museums in the Contemporary World’ (Santiago, Chile, 1972), an event that laid the foundation of what we call New Museology, the present work states the importance of education as one of the social functions of the museum.It also presents the preliminary documents and the letters of commitment from PNEM (National Program for museum education), recent guidelines for the construction of a public policy of education and museums in Brazil. Based on programs and projects of the educational sector, this text discusses yet how the exhibition can be an element to inquests and problematization. We started from the premise that the museums are spaces for sensitive training, and that in them, teachers, students and museum educators share worldviews and resignify their ethical, aesthetic and political positions.