O Museu de História Natural do Ceará Prof. Dias da Rocha se aproximando do ensino de ciências: caminhando por trajetórias e possibilidades

Abstract

Museums are so-called non-formal educational spaces with various potential to contribute to teaching and, in this work, the objective was to investigate the educational possibilities of the Natural History Museum of Ceará Prof. Dias da Rocha located in the municipality of Pacoti, Ceará, which emerged in 2019 in a partnership between the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro and the State University of Ceará. It is not among the objectives of this research to create educational actions, but rather to investigate and provoke discussion about the educational possibilities of this space. It is a qualitative and post-critical research. The methodological path chosen was to conduct interviews with five people responsible for the museum and, based on their answers, to discuss the possibilities. The museum has a variety of possibilities and potential, however, due to the difficulties related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the structure of the building and the lack of specialized professionals to carry out the educational actions, these may take time to be carried out in a fixed exhibition within the physical space. of the museum, but this impossibility also induces the search for alternative ways and that, instead of taking schools to the museum, this goes to basic science education and also seeks alternatives in the New Museology that proposes bases for a space and museum teaching that takes place outside four walls.