Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29-30/2. (2010)
Mueum pedagogy
The Europa Nostra 2010 Education Award — European Added Value 7 rural schools (primary and secondary teaching) in Sibiu County, 9 kinder gardens in the city of Sibiu, 1 urban kinder garden in Sibiu County, 1 rural kindergand in Sibiu County. The Brukenthal National Museum also enjoyed as partners in education activities the “Grigore Antipa” Museum of Bucharest, Grupo de Gestevores Patrimonio Cultural Latino- Americano of Buenos Aires and the National University of Comahue Argentina for the project “Discovering the Dinosaur” (2008), the German Cultural Forum in Sibiu for several workshops (2008 and 2009), the Calvinist Parish in Sibiu for an exhibition project (2008), the Twinning Association Rennes Sibiu (temporary exhinition of year 2009 related activities), the Caleidoscop Centre for Autistic Children. Results The audience of the project was considerable under the respect of participants, summing a total of 1587 visits, 2 thematic projects and 2 exhibitions in 2008, 7341 visits, 34 thematic projects and 7 exhibitions in 2009 and 13478 visits, 19 thematic projects and 6 exhibitions in the first semester of year 2010. The records of the visits, number of participating students, activities, projects and exhibitions, dated and mentioning the school, the name of the teacher leading the group and the guiding person are posted on the education web page of the Museum’s site. There is also an archive for the 2008 and 2009 records. The community response to the Museum’s youth educational project equaled the audience in schools, the events of prizes awarding or exhibition openings were mediatized through over 40 television and radion news and 100 newspaper articles. Publications Until present, the Museum issued six publications for students of different groups of age: guided books to the permanent exhibitions of Brukenthal Palace (1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed 2009, sold in 2000 copies) and the Museum of Natural History (2009) for secondary and high school students, activity books to the Brukenthal Palace and the Museum of History (2009) for primary school students and an exhibition catalogue promoting the works of art school students1 (Fig. 4 a/b). As far as we know, the Brukenthal National Museum is the first in Romania to publish a guide to the exhibition for students, the first to issue museum-applied activity books for children and the first to publish a catalogue on students’ exhibition. European added-value The European added-value consists in the new approach regarding youth education in the museum on a school-museum relation basis. As the general museum practice is to present an exhibit and encourage students to draw and comment upon the subject afterwards, the main strategy ol “Discovering the Museum” programme was to focus on what the museum in general and the Brukenthal National Museum in particular has characteristic. 1. Dana Roxana Hrib, Palatul Brukenthal: Ghidulpentru elevi, ed I (Sibiu, Altip, 2008) Dana Roxana Hrib, Ingeri: catalog de expozitie (Sibiu, Altip, 2008) Dana Roxana Hrib, Palatul Brukenthal: Ghidul pentru elevi, ed II (Sibiu, Altip, 2009) Dana Roxana Hrib, Povestile Palatului Brukenthal: indrumar depedagogie muzealá cl. I—IV(Sibiu, Altip, 2009) Anamaria Tudorie, D. R. Hrib, О cälätorie in timp la Muzeul de Istorie: indrumar de pedagogie muzealä cl. I—IV (Sibiu, Altip, 2009) Rodica Ciobanu, Gabriela Cuzepan, Muzeul de Istorie Naturalä: Ghidul pentru elevi (Sibiu, Altip, 2009) 165
