Breaking Boundaries!  Museum Education as Research

Welcome to the National Museum’s seminar on museum education, presented in collaboration with the education section at Norges Museumsforbund (the association of Norwegian museums)

What is defined as knowledge in today’s museums? What happens when the focus shifts from objects and collections to the audience, to learning, and to visitor experiences? 
  
Given that museums are currently being defined as platforms of democracy, participation, and multiple voices, we must also rethink both what we want to accomplish with research and how we define knowledge, professionalism, and quality.  
  
In this seminar we will take a closer look at how museum practitioners can study their own practice: How can research lead to a more investigative and deliberate way of working? Which research methods can we use? And what does this research look like? Does it have to take shape as a research article, or can it be physical? Can we share knowledge with each other without texts?

If you want to participate in the dinner event on Thursday, 25 November, at 19:00, you must purchase an additional ticket here.