A exposição temporária “O Pantanal através dos esqueletos” : análise da concepção a avaliação

Abstract

The educational potential associated with Museums is indisputable, such institutionsare able to contribute educationally to all types of publics through their exhibitions andevents. In Brazil, there is a public policy named the National Museum Education Plan (PNEM) whichdescribes how museums should be a part of non-formal education to Brazilians andtourists. Over the centuries the Natural History Museums were essential to safeguard countlessspecimens that represent large areas of knowledge. The Natural History MuseumsorScience Museums play an important role in ensuring that the preservation and disseminationof major scientific areas, contributing, for example, to the learning of the school-agepublic. Inview of this potential for dissemination and scientific education of Natural History Museums, the present study presents a work developed at the Natural History Museumof MatoGrosso(MHNMT), Brazil, between October 2021 and February 2022. In this period, themuseumteam held its first temporary exhibition after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, entitled“The Pantanal through the skeletons”. As the result of this study, all the processesthat involved the development of the temporary exhibition were described, as the profileof thevisiting public and a case study on the importance of museums in the learning processof theschool public. In conclusion the study demonstrated how this exhibition helped theMHNMTin the use of its educational and science communication potential.