When the museum turned into learning space. Education and museums in Guipúzcoa in the 80’s
Abstract
In the eighties of the last century, in a changing context in Spain, museum education reached a certain stage of maturity that allowed cutting distances with the Anglo-Saxon museums’ educational models. In this paper, contextualized in the Spanish situation, this situation is analysed in the case of Guipúzcoa through 3 cases that help to understand the innovative and key trends of that momentary success: social initiative museums which respond to new necessities of citizens, involvement of different agents and educational innovation based on active methodologies. In the 1990s, the massive opening of museums and the consequent modernization and professionalization in the new models of management and development of them, entailing the loss of validity and the disuse of this model of museum education, voluntary, community and more handmade, in favour of more professional models, leaving us a romantic small legacy of innovative educational practices for its time.
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