The contribution of children’s museum to getting familiar with the urban landscape

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Published: Jul 27, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/χπ.1410
Keywords:
children’s museums representation of urban space children’s perspective social learning cultural pedagogy
Δέσποινα Καλεσοπούλου (Despina Kalessopoulou)
Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6004-8274
Abstract
Children’s museums showed up at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century as an effort to create learning environments that support the personal and social development of children through the use of museum collections and special thematic installations. A popular category of their exhibits that corresponds to the broader category of presenting everyday life simulates parts of the urban landscape such as the neighbourhood and its shops, mass transportation or the port of the city. Other exhibits approach social issues of our era, such as cultural diversity, discrimination or consumerism by recreating private or public spaces. The article attempts to delineate the types of exhibition environments that invite children to explore, comprehend and get familiar with aspects of the city and of collective life and discusses the differentiation of their pedagogical objectives and methods. Best practices on the strategies used so that children can participate not only as visitors of the museum, but also in the design and day-to-day operation of this special urban space will be commented alongside.
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Author Biography
Δέσποινα Καλεσοπούλου (Despina Kalessopoulou), Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών

Διδάσκουσα Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, ΠΜΣ Μουσειακές Σπουδές

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