strategies in museum learning. l the museum was named after its founder – baron samuel von...
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STRATEGIES IN MUSEUM LEARNING
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The Museum was named after its founder – Baron Samuel von Brukenthal (Governor of Transylvania between 1777 and 1787), who built an impressive Baroque palace in Sibiu, in which location the Museum established its beginnings.
Initially presenting von Brukenthal’s collection of European Painting in one single building, today the Museum shelters a large diversity of valuable collections in 8 buildings.
The Brukenthal National Museum was opened to the public in 1817, beingthe first museum on the today’s Romanian territories and in the South-East Europe.
During the period between 2006 and 2008, the Museum was subjected to a spectacular transformation, all the buildings in its administration being renovated while about 85% of the exhibitions were reconsidered.
April 2006 April 2009
In the process of remaking the old exhibitions and issuing new ones, the educational aspect was one of the priorities.
The first education rooms in the Museum were opened as follows:
2007 The Museum of Natural History
2008 The Brukenthal Palace (Art Galleries)
2008 The Museum of History
Before 2006, museum education activities were random.
Because of the renovation process paralleled by the events of Sibiu European Capital of Culture in 2007, an articulate educational programme was possible to be run only starting with school year 2008/2009.
In September 2008, the youth educational programme
“DISCOVERING THE MUSEUM”
has been launched at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu. For the beginning, the broad educational offer – a step-by-step activities timeline comprising 57 themes and eight projects – was disseminated at all urban or rural levels.
What we aimed at was to encourage students of different groups of age
→ to became familiar with the museum through recurrence in visiting.
→ to let them discover the museum step by step.
→ to give them the possibility of learning, being creative and enjoying in recreation.
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OUR STRATEGIES:
1. Teaching the Teachers
Ecology between necessity and reality (project)
THEORETICAL APPROACH
→ 4 lectures on ecology
→ Trainers: the curators of the Museum of Natural History
→ Trainees: 45 teachers of rural kinder gardens
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PRACTICAL APPROACH
2 series of workshops with children
→ Spring symbols made of recycled materials
→ A vegetal alternative in egg-painting
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PRACTICAL APPROACH
2 exhibitions opened in the museum
1 sketch for the opening wrote by teachers
played by children
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2. Teaching the future Teachers
Pedagogy praxis (project)
→ 2 guided tours to the Brukenthal Palace/Art Galleries
→ 6 lessons on guiding primary school students
→ Trainers: the curators of Art Galleries
→ Trainees: Pedagogy High School in Sibiu
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OUR STRATEGIES:
3. Study facilities for future artists
Art praxis
Opened in 2008, in Brukenthal Palace
The permanent exhibition of 19th c. plaster-cast copies
was specially arranged to accommodate the classes of
students in art.
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OUR STRATEGIES:
4. Learning about Museum’s history
Samuel von Brukenthal and his palace
Target: All groups of age
The topic was comprised in the thematic guided tours
timeline as well as in the creativity contest
The Brukenthal Palace in the Eyes of Children.
The activities focused on Palace’s structure, reception
Rooms and von Brukenthal’s personality.
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OUR STRATEGIES:
5. Learning about exhibitions I
Target: Primary school students
The topic was comprised in the thematic
guided tours timeline.
The activities focused on:
-Visitation circuit
- Ways of displaying exhibits
- How to read labels
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6. Learning about exhibitions II
Collection to Museum (project)
Target: Secondary school students
The students learned about the collections on which
exhibitions rely on, along notions as conservation,
appropriate storage and inventory,
practicing on their own collections.
The exhibition adjoined the collections put together by students with the scientific collections of the Museum in a display meant to evince similarities and differences.
OUR STRATEGIES:
7. Learning about Brukenthal Collection of Painting
Angels (creativity project)Target: Art High School students
The topic was the angels as represented in Brukenthal European Collection of Painting and in the works of Art High School students in Sibiu.
Stages:
- theoretical presentation of the iconographic theme
- European Art Gallery guided tour
- the selection of models
- workshop creation stage
OUR STRATEGIES:
Angels
(the exhibition catalogue)
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8. Temporary exhibitions/The Contemporary Art Gallery
Animated Films from Germany (workshop)
Partner: German Cultural Center, Sibiu
Learning about animated film making
5 teams (2 high school students each)
The festive presentation of films took place at the „Gong” Theatre.
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OUR STRATEGIES:
9. Temporary exhibitions/The Contemporary Art Gallery
Otto Dix (theater, literature, poetry)
Partner: German Cultural Center, Sibiu
Faculty students related their projects with the works in the exhibition
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OUR STRATEGIES:
10. Challenging topics
The Museum of Pharmacy for primary school students (project)
The similarities extent between the story telling about wizards and the historical reality of the social perception on the first pharmacists, were presented.
Harry Potter Carnival
Chemistry experiments
Learning about the scientifically background of the spectacular phenomena
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OUR STRATEGIES:
11. Going to schools
Guided tours for parents (project)
Target: primary school students
Teaching 4th grade students to guide their parents to the Museum of History exhibitions on the occasion of International Day of Families.
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12. Learning about ethnic history
Thematic guided tours for Romani students (project)
Target: primary and secondary school students
The guided tours evinced the most important moments in the history of Romani people.
The final stage of the project involved creativity, the students creating drawings inspired by Museum’s exhibitions.
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The Brukenthal National Museum
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May, 2009