Category: Education

Digital strategy: new online course between the museum and the university

Conxa Rodà Nowadays training is an essential element in organisations. The changing environment that we are immersed in, digital acceleration, new ways of working and new social uses of communication and cultural consumption all mean that to continue being trained is now more necessary than ever. In the museum we are convinced that the training…

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Author: Conxa Rodà

Illustrated books of the School Groups. A world of adventures

Yolanda Ruiz Since 1967, on 2nd April, coinciding with the date of birth of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, the International Children’s Book Day, from the library we have wanted to join this celebration. This year we will tell you about a set of illustrated books that come from the School Groups of Barcelona…

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Author: Yolanda Ruiz

Museums and accessibility: a community of practice

Teresa González Accessibility in museums is a long journey and a milestone which we are still a long way from achieving.  Since 1999, the year in which the Education Department of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya started its programme Museum space in common –which carries out specific projects for groups suffering from mental disorders…

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Author: Teresa González

Museums training with the Johns Hopkins University

Conxa Rodà The Museu Nacional has collaborated with the Johns Hopkins University of Washington to host in Barcelona, in January 2016, an onsite seminar within its Online Master of Arts in Museum Studies, as we had already done in 2012. Entitled Museums in Changing Times, the academic programme, of two weeks’ duration, was made up…

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Author: Conxa Rodà

Visual Thinking Strategies: looking, thinking and communicating through art

We are in the Escola Miquel Bleach, and we invite you to participate in a session of VTS (Visual Thinking Strategies), within the framework of the Tàndem Project which is being carried out by this school with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Everything is ready for the activity. They are 4th year Primary students….

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Author: Z_ Guest blogger

GIF Animation in the Modern Art collection

  We will show you some of the GIFS (Graphic Interchange Formats) that youngsters have created, inspired by our Modern Art collection. While you stroll through the galleries and admire the artworks and the spaces, don’t forget your creative spirit and be artists. With the touch screen device with a camera and some basic knowledge…

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Author: Redacció museu

The museum as seen by young illustrators

Philip Stanton 26 young illustrators from EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, were lucky enough to be able to really explore the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in October and November 2014. As a coordinator, teacher and creative collaborator I am proud to share with you the results of this experience. How it all began…

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Author: Z_ Guest blogger

Apropa Cultura (Getting Closer to Culture): inclusive museum, united museum

Elisabet Pueyo I think that the most interesting thing to share with you in these lines is not only explaining what the programme Apropa Cultura (Getting Closer to Culture) is, but also passing on to you what it has meant to be a part of this initiative that joins together and creates synergies between cultural…

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Author: Elisabet Pueyo

Educational consumption or slow education? Educational programme 2015-2016

Teresa González Summarising or highlighting the programme aimed at schooling centres without falling into educational marketing is not easy. Art as a tool for perceiving the world, the artistic creation, that bursts in the classrooms and shakes the teaching practices, and the community building are some of the objectives that form the background for the educational…

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Author: Teresa González

5 years of the Postgraduate Course in Museum Management

Conxa Rodà When in 2009, at that time in the Museu Picasso, I received a proposal to think about the academic programme for a new  Postgraduate course in Museum Management, the first thing I did, as when beginning any project, was to carry out a prospective analysis of the existing offer. Searching for singularity There…

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Author: Conxa Rodà