Artistic education in museums. Synergy between classroom and museum, current importance and challenges in theconstruction of an alliance

Abstract

The increase of the educative supply in the art museums has been considerable since the decade of the 90’, locating us in a favorable scenario for the development of the artistic education in the non-formal area; nevertheless, and in a parallel way, we can see how the course of artistic formation is found in a precarious situation inside the scholar curriculum. Within this frame, it emerges the importance of researching about how to generate an alliance between museum and school that allows to strengthen the artistic field.

The following article inquiries about the current focus that art museums, in Chile and other countries of the region, have generated in order to optimize the relation with the teachers. Also, the strategies and didactic resources created for this end are reviewed.