ANYTHING GOES MUSEUM, OR THE FIVE SENSES OF PARTICIPATION
Journal Title: Muzealnictwo - Year 2016, Vol 57, Issue
Abstract
Usually an exhibition takes several years to be created. The curator responsible for it carries out queries and research, thanks to which the topic presented to the guests is presented in a broad historical and cultural context. The exhibition “Anything Goes Museum”, curated by children and organised by the National Museum in Warsaw, was created within six months. The topics chosen by the young curators (aged between 6 and 14 ) are universal questions about the definition of fear, the relationships between people and the world of nature, heroism, and the changes that the world constantly undergoes. The curators prepared this exhibition in an emotional way – it was an entirely novel approach to what an exhibition should look like. This experience allowed both the museum staff and the young curators to get to know each other better and look at each other from a different perspective than usual. This museum and educational experiment is a participatory project which fully empowered the children, who represent the most significant group of museum visitors.
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Anna Knapek
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