Thinking the museum institution as an educational and cultural institution, the case of Museo de Antioquia/Pensar la institución museistica en términos de institución educativa y cultural, el caso del Museo de Antioquia/Pensar a instituicao museistica como instituicao educativa e cultural, o caso do Museu de Antioquia

• Published in: Revista latinoamericana de ciencias sociales, niñez y juventud niñez y juventud, 2013-07, Vol.11 (2), p.819
• Main Authors: Soto-Lombana, Carlos Arturo, Angulo-Delgado, Fanny, Runge-Pena, Andres Klaus, Rendon-Uribe, Maria Alexandra
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 1692-715X
• DOI: 10.11600/1692715x.11224180213

* (analytical): The central objective of this article is to unveil the perceptions and assumptions about the educational and cultural nature of a Colombian noteworthy museum institution.The scope is descriptive and the methodology used was the case study. The proposition was presented before the Museum of Antioquia to carry out several workshops with the participation of representatives from all the areas of the Institution (the commercial, curatorship, education, projects, human management, culture, communications, itinerant museum, administration andfinances, legal, corporate relations departments). As a result,it became evident that there are various deconstructive and transformingpractices, in keeping with the so-called educational turn that characterizes contemporary museums.The main conclusion is that the Museum staff coincides in the paramount importance of the educating function that the Institution has, nevertheless, they fail to explain how, why and who must be responsible for it.