PROJECTS

General description

Museums have now been included on family and school agendas as places of culture to visit. Although children tend to visit museums with school, parents are also gradually accompanying them and taking active part in museum activities, exhibitions and areas of culture. Work done in the nineteen-nineties to create educational departments is gradually bearing fruit although there is still a long way to go before museums are appealing enough for children to be able to enjoy the items on exhibition and for their message to be presented in the right language. Museum rhetoric is mainly aimed at an adult public, which must then interpret it for children.

This research is intended to analyse children’s behaviour patterns in Girona’s different museum spaces.

Objectives

To identify the elements that determine children’s behaviour patterns in a museum.

To establish the factors that influence a child’s observation of and interaction with the museum.

To analyse the relationship between child and museum with regard to diversity of space and the subject matter offered by five of the museums in the city of Girona.

To analyse how the child develops inside a museum with a view to establishing parameters for emitter-receptor relations.

To identify and determine the social, cultural and educational factors taking place.

Methodology and work plan

Analysis of the state of the question in qualitative public studies.

Categorisation of children’s behaviour on a family visit to five Girona museums.

Study of children’s different behaviour patterns on a visit to a museum.

References

Què fan els nens i les nenes als museus? : un estudi sobre el comportament infantil en el marc de l'educació no formal / Autor: Lada Servitja Tormo. -- Girona : Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya, 2018. -- 1 vol. (127 p.) : ill. en coul., fig., graph., couv. ill. en coul. ; 30 cm.