Educational action in museums: the Third Age building knowledge from objects in the Museum of Archeology and Etnology - São Paulo University

Abstract

This article deals with educational actions with elderly people in a public museum. The methodology of this work will be presented. It involves an exploration of objects of the elderly and their life stories. It includes also a parallel between two workshops for elderly people, with similar working methodologies and different results which had as final work the assemblage of an exhibition of contextualized objects.