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This study focuses on the educational activities carried out in Swedish museums. Activity pedagogy is a concept that concerns learning with a combination of activities. The museums meet a new generation of museum visitors who want to experience and participate in the educational activities. As going from being passive participants to active actors becomes more natural, this could create a problem för the museums. The pedagogical tools that are available today for the museum educators are based on cultural-historical objectess and clothes that have a direct connection to the historical time period the museum manages. The museums act as an arena för knowledge, but it has been stated that there are shortcomings in the educational activities. The basis is the objects that are available in the museums exhibition and the educational offer is based o the exhibitions, but there is an opportunity to discuss and highlight other topics. Tactile spaces and digital tools have begun to become a more natural of the museum's activities, but there are pros and cons to it. The study is based on the educational activities carried out at Old Uppsala Museum and the Nordic Museum. A combination of observation and interview studies, but also current research of museum pedagogy has been the basis for this study. The result is that the tools available in today's museums have a basic idea, but that there is room for development. Offering visitors to participate and make suggestions for improvment is a step in the right direction. Activity pedagogy and object-based tours must be preformed for each visitor group, regardless of age. It has emerged in my study that objects incorporated in the displays increase the quality of the guided tour. This is a two years master's thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies. |
