In order to understand how the Educational Department of museums work, we had to go on a visit and workshop to get the their essence and do an interview to the heads of the department, which we did by email. We chose MACBA because of its range of different educational activities it offered.
Our group followed Primary School students along the visit and we stayed at the end to see which kind of workshops they did.
The exhibition we saw was called the Short Century and had many works englobed; however we just focused on a few of them, chosen by the guide. We found it a really good choice because it showed different features and topics and we did not repeat any of them. Apart from that, we got a good impression from the guide, who instead of explaining the meaning of each work, asked the students questions and, from those, she linked the main ideas connected to the theme of the creation and constructed with them the significance, so then they could discuss about it. Some of the topics that appear were: war, feminism, racial discrimination, among others. What is more, the good aspect of this visit was noticing that each relevant comment from the children that appeared in the different sections were used to create, in workshop time, a big poster in groups to convince people about the importance of those topics in our society.
By carrying out this project, I realized how many resources we could use when becoming teachers, since bringing children to museum is an amusing and different way of working or complementing the content done in class.
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