Prácticas para un museo vivo. Educación, sensibilidad y acceso para diversidad de públicos en el Museo Nacional de Colombia

Abstract

My internship at the National Museum of Colombia is grounded in the connection between my academic background in Visual and Plastic Arts and the Museum’s educational mission, which seeks to create meaningful, reflective, and critical experiences around cultural heritage and make them accessible to the general public. The Educational Action area develops pedagogical strategies that connect the collections with diverse audiences, fostering processes of interpretation, sensitivity, and active participation. Within this context, I find a meaningful opportunity, drawing on my artistic background, to contribute to cultural mediation, museum education, and public programming, with a focus on evaluating and improving the accessibility of these experiences. Contemplation, play, rest, and embodied experience have been ongoing areas of inquiry throughout my undergraduate studies, which I understand as alternative forms of knowledge and ways of relating to oneself and one’s surroundings. From this perspective, I explore how these experiences can be integrated into the public sphere of the museum to foster slower, more sensitive, and attentive rhythms of perception, strengthening the relationship between visitors and collections in a democratic and open manner, while responding to the needs of different audiences.