But is this a museum? How museums without walls face the challenge of museum education

Abstract

This paper analyzes the work in Ecomuseum Agobar Dr. Fagundes, in Blumenau / SC and the Museum of Childhood in Cricklewood / SC, illuminating their typological characteristics - as an ecomuseum (understood as a privileged space of discussion about the contemprary relations between man, nature and museum), and as a community museum and university (those whose collections are under custody and responsibility of an institution of higher education and whose bid is to be a social gathering space around knowledge /heritage as a generator of meaning for the local population and surrounding, stimulating the processes of identity configuration, and improved quality of life of social groups that live in the region, in its many social functions). At the same time, it analyzes their point of convergence: both are structured as museums without walls, who gave up physical boundaries, shear boundaries, territories leaked. From the initial conceptualization, the article opens the debate about the estrangement of the public at this museum experience while showing these new possibilities in order to assist other museums to reinvent themselves and be reconfigured to meet a more diverse audience, since the break occurred did not disaggregate the dialogues about heritage – differently, set up new projects, new questions, new interpretations.