Museum Exhibitions: A Space in Dispute for the Senses and Meanings of the Environment and its Socio-Environmental Problems

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https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec2020u755773

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Museum, exhibitions, environment, socio-environmental problems

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The present manuscript aims to contribute to the debate on the role of traditional museums in light of the current environmental crisis. For this purpose, we discuss the environmental exhibitions and social-environmental problems exposed on traditional museums. In this sense, we start from a historical review on the constitution of museums, based on some transformations experienced by their collections. Next, we discuss the education of visitors in terms of time, space and object. Based on this discussion, we analyze the communicative and educational possibilities of the exhibitions. Finally, we address the problematic of presenting the environment and its problems in museum exhibitions. From this study, we suggest that museums are a major possibility for citizenship teaching in terms of environmental issues. On the other hand, in practice, the way of treating the environment and social-environmental problems falls short considering the complex and multifaceted nature of the subject. For this reason, we agree that traditional museums stand in an unfavorable position in supporting the fight against the environmental crisis.

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Yanina Micaela Sammarco, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Graduada em Ciências Biológicas pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, mestre em Engenharia Ambiental pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e Doutora em Educação Ambiental pela Universidade Autônoma de Madrid, Espanha e pela ESALQ/USP. Atualmente é Docente na Universidade Federal do Paraná e possui projetos de pesquisa e extensão na área de Percepção e Educação Ambiental, Cultura e Territórios Socioambientais, Ambientalização Escolar e Universitária. Também é integrante do Instituto Pró-Terra com experiência nas áreas protegidas, bacias hidrográficas, material educativo, formação de professores e atores socioambientais, entre outros.

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2020-08-10

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Rodríguez, I. B. ., & Sammarco, Y. M. (2020). Museum Exhibitions: A Space in Dispute for the Senses and Meanings of the Environment and its Socio-Environmental Problems. Brazilian Journal of Research in Science Education, 20(u), 755–773. https://doi.org/10.28976/1984-2686rbpec2020u755773

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