Regional Museum Academy-2019

Museum exhibition and educational strategies

16-17 September 2019

Mogilev, Cultural institution "Museum of the history of the city of Mogilev".

The fourth, final Belarusian training program "Museum Communication" within the framework of the Regional Museum Academy-2019, was held in Mogilev on the basis of two leading museums: the Museum of the history of the city of Mogilev and the Museum of Ethnography, a branch of the Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore. E.R. Romanova.

For Belarusian listeners from the regions, the presentation of the new concept of the regional museum was especially interesting, which was prepared by the referent Stefan Schumann on the example of the transformation of the museum of the Beskov Castle and its exposition in the regional museum of the Oder-Spree region, followed by discussion and analysis both in small groups and the whole community .

The keynote speech of the second speaker, Karolina Savchik, was titled "Building the Educational and Mediation Work of the Museum on the Example of the German-Russian Museum "Berlin-Karlshorst" - Needs, Activities, Actors, Problems".

Foto © Goethe-Institut / Galina Chitrikowa

The director of the Goethe Institute in Minsk, Mr. Jakob Raczek, opens the seminar in Mogilev.

Demonstration lesson with children in the Museum of Ethnography, a branch of the Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore. E.R. Romanova.

The seminar was attended not only by members of the main group of the Regional Museum Academy, but also invited to free participation with free admission, all museum workers from Mogilev and the Mogilev region who wish to attend the event.

Alla Stashkevich, Director of the "Heritage and Modernity" Foundation, moderates the first day of the seminar.

Aleksey Batyukov, director of the CI "Museum of the history of the city of Mogilev", together with the participants of the seminar, performs educational tasks.

Museum pedagogy and activities with young museum visitors were the focus of the second day of the workshop.

In the collection of the Museum of Ethnography, a branch of the Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore. E.R. Romanov, many unique items that the participants of the seminar worked with.

Members of the main group Irina Yudina, researcher at the Vetka Museum of Old Believers and Belarusian Traditions, and Anna Anisimova, Head of the Department of Cultural and Educational Work of the Mogilev Regional Museum of Local Lore. E. R. Romanova, perform an exemplary educational task.

The rest of the training seminar was devoted to intensive workshops and engaging participants in participatory communication formats based on the results of the classes.

An example of independent tasks was the research trips of trainees with a camera around the museum exposition to study the topic “Communication between the museum and the visitor through the object” and subsequent work in groups.

More photos of the event.

Foto © Goethe-Institut / Galina Chitrikowa