Museological Institutions and Leisure Practices

Abstract

This study intends to discuss the leisure practice in museums, understanding that the leisure industry has expanded and transformed the relationship between the public and museums and managed to print in this space a place for the practice of leisure and tourist attraction. From the conception of the New Museology, it aims to present policies that have been implemented in Brazil and in other countries with the proposal of a new museum that gives rise to a sense of belonging for the population, and also, have proposals committed with leisure, bringing forms more engaging interaction for visitors. Faced with this, it is important to understand whether museums actually adopt leisure practices and whether these practices enable processes of social inclusion. This work had as interest to know the scientific production in format of articles in the period of 2011 to 2015 in which the English descriptors "museum and leisure" were used. After selection of the articles by the inclusion criteria, three categories of analysis formed the object of study of this work, being: a) New museology; b) Leisure in museums and c) Marketing in museums. It was verified that there are few works in the international scope that treat the binomial museum-leisure in the databases of electronic journals used and that there was no work done by Brazilian researcher. Attention is drawn to the need for further research on the museum and leisure relationship in order to subsidize actions for the construction of public policies for the democratization of museological spaces, in order to promote social inclusion actions, for gender issues and attraction to the people of lower level of schooling. It is criticized that museums are still spaces for more privileged classes and this is an image to be deconstructed.