Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 29-30/2. (2010)
Mueum pedagogy
Dana Roxana HRIB Under this respect, the young generation was thought what a museum is: exhibitions, collections, storages, conservation and restoration were the main topics to be explained before referring to a particular item. The step by step process of discovering the museum moved from general to particular, from what is to be visited to what it is beside the closed doors. The students were invited to become little museum workers organizing their own collections and making their own exhibitions. In response to the needs of institutions involved, in order to accommodate their own specificity, “Discovering the Museum” programme included training stages for teachers, facilitated the practice of pedagogy and art high school students and promoted the creation of art students and theater students inside and outside the Museum’s galleries. There were also activities accommodating the persons with special needs, the project also involving the visits of kinder gardens and school with developmental disability profile. The intercultural dialogue and cultural diversity were promoted through special events for Romani students and the ecumenical pattern of some of the projects as the Angels exhibition comprising works done by Eastern Orthodox students, inspired by Catholic paintings and exhibited in a Calvinist church. Scientific communications Although a young programme involving a short but complex practice, “Discovering the Museum” offered the ideal basis of scientific study, since its launching 7 scientific communications2 being defended at national and international symposiums and 5 articles published (the present one included)3. Prizes In the year 2010, the Brukenthal National Museum was the first museum in Romania to receive a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards, the 4th category: Education, Training and Awareness-raising with the museum pedagogy programme “Discovering the Museum” (Fig. 5 a/b). 2. Dana Hrib, Strategies in Museum learning. Muzeul Satului „D. Gusti” Bucurejti (14—17.V.2009) — The European Conference on Youth Education in Museums. Dana Hrib, DescoperindMuzeul [Discovering the Museum] Muzeul Literaturii Romane Ia§i (7-8.X.2009) - The National Symposium on History, Culture and Heritage. Raluca Teodorescu, Pove$tile Muzeului National Brukenthal: Program de practica pedagogicä /г pedagogie muzealä [The stories of Brukenthal National Museum: A programme of pedagogy praxis and museum pedagogy], Ministerul Culturii §i Patrimoniului National, Bucure^ti — „Educatia muzealä — obiectiv prioritar in muzee” (9-10.XI.2009). Rodica Ciobanu, Geological education in museums, Universitatea Babes Bolyai Cluj Napoca — 16lh Annual Meeting of the Association of European Geological Societies (9-13.VII.209). Anamaria Tudorie, Raluca Teodorescu, A ludic approach of macabre thematic in museum education activities, The International Congress of Art Macabre, Sibiu, (20-22.V.2010). Rodica Ciobanu, Educatia geo logicä ji patrimonial cultural, Muzeul Judetean Mure$,Tärgu Mures (20-21X.2010) — Sesiunea International de Comunicäri §tiintifice. Dana Hrib, Premiul Europa Nostra pentru Educatie 2010 — Contributii Europene. 3. Dana Hrib, ‘The Brukenthal National Museum: Strategies in Museum Learning’ in The Romanian Journal of Museums, 2/2009. Rodica Ciobanu, Geological education in museums. Case study: The Brukenthal National Museum, Studia Universitatis Babe? Bolyai, Geológia, Special Issue, MAEGS-16 (Cluj-Napoca, 2009). Dana Hrib, ‘Museum Pedagogy - A Successful Programme’ in Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis IX, 2010. Anamaria Tudorie, Raluca Teodorescu, A ludic approach of macabre thematic in museum education activities’ in Actes du XlVme Congres International dEtudes sur les DANSES MACABRES et lArt Macabre en General (C. Bogdan, S Marin-Barutcieff ed., Ed. Universitätii din Bucuresti, 2010). 166
