Museums are important educational environments and offer a considerable learning potential. Collections exhibited in museums provide pupils with a tangible connection with time, places, events, or people and allow them to experience the evolution of human history and cultural heritage. Learning in museums helps pupils understand the historical value of objects, respect diverse cultures and understand multiculturalism. Exploring museums gives students the ability to engage actively in the process of acquiring knowledge and to express thoughts and emotions. Effective use of museums can lead to multifaceted learning, development of critical thinking skills and acquisition of lifelong learning skills of 21st c.

This 6-day course gives participants theoretical background about Museum Education, as well as practical guidelines to integrate activities and implement programmes across the areas of curriculum and school life. Discussions, site visits and group work will enrich sharing ideas and exchange of practice between participants. There is also the possibility to extend the course to 7-day.

Course Schedule
DAY 1
• Introduction
• Museum Education: A new way of teaching & learning
• Benefits of Museum Education
• Museum Education & lifelong learning skills
• Activities for team building
• The Museum and its mission
• The Museum through the ages
• Visit to Kourion archaeological site
• Discussion about activities in archaeological sites.

DAY 2
• ICT tools for sharing data & communication
• Visit to Limassol historical center, Carob Mill Museum, Medieval Castle & Museum and other monuments.
• Doing activities in the city center.
• Data collection for the group work
• Tools for collecting data

DAY 3
• The educational role of the Museum
• History of Museum Education
• Framework of Museum Education
• Steps for planning learning activities in museums
• Activities in museums & cultural places
• ICT tools for creative activities

DAY 4
• Approaches for Museum Education
• Learning from objects
• Activities in art galleries
• Activities in archaeological sites & open air cultural places
• Orientation Activities
• Museum Education programmes in Cyprus

DAY 5
• Practicing AI tools
• Visit to the Cyprus Theatre Museum, Limassol Archaeological Museum and Municipal Garden
• Data collection for group work.

DAY 6
• Techniques for Museum Education.
• Activities for cultural awareness and expression.
• Participants complete the group work, presentation of group work
• Review of the course, certificates.

DAY 7 (optional)
TOUR TO PAPHOS TOWN
It includes a tour with 5-stops (9:00 am- 5:00 pm)
• Tomb of the kings
• Catacomb of Agia Solomoni
• Paphos Archaeological Park with Roman mosaics
• Paphos Medieval Castle and port
• Petra tou Romiou (birthplace of Aphrodite).
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