The Awakening of the Museum to New AudiencesFollowing this principle, the Museum intends to promote educative actions and delineate strategies to include specific audiences, offering them legitimate access to quality cultural products.
Therefore, the Paper Museum presented a candidature to the Operational Culture Program in 2004, designated The Awakening of the Museum to New Audiences, involving different segments of the public and creating leisure and formation conditions to recreate the history of Paper.
Always following the paper, this museological space reinvents itself through an education dynamic with different learning areas, thus extending its socio - educative action and awakening to new audiences.
In pursuit of this objective, The Awakening of the Museum to New Audiences integrates the following actions:
And the old became new - paper recycling
The knowledge of paper recycling is transmitted in a more precise way by a mascot called Forminhas, allowing different apprenticeships in an environement exclusively dedicated to him.
According to the age of each group, different contents are developed through a pedagogical know-how attitude, employing a set of different supports and equipment.
One can hear the narrative of the Lourença Device story, see animated films (Paper Recycling and Recycled Paper) and play didactic games. This workshop also includes the manual production of cotton paper, employing appropriate equipment, both in color and dimension, to the size of the participants and culminating in a moment of creative expression.
The aerogram paperPreceded by the recollection of the aerograms watermarks and the identification of the Portuguese factories that produced them, this workshop intends to show the aerogram role as writing support during the colonial war, valuing, simultaneously, its importance as tool of solidarity and humanity in the war scenario.
A different day - pedagogical suitcaseThrough a mobile workshop about the manual production of paper, the objective is to reach segments of public with special accessibility needs, promoting, with therapeutic aims, this kind of production and developing different dynamics outside the Museum.
Memories of Paper in the First Person
Through the identification of lost paper spaces, the valorization of life stories about papermaking as an art and the collective memory of the paper-people, the objective is to return to spaces and experiences of the industrial era, searching for the identification of the cultures inherent to the most important national papermaking places.
The meaning of feeling - the importance of a festure
The access to the knowledge of the history of paper is provided through the valorization of signs and the impact of images. Through recreation, using didactic games and promoting a sculpture workshop, the understanding of the messages about recycling and the importance of the different stages of recycled paper production in the Paper Museum become easier.
The meaning of feeling - paper sounds and textures
The aim is to transmit the knowledge of the history of paper through paper sounds and textures, promoting the individual understanding of the technical conditions of production and of the permanent exhibition contents, which allow a real perception of the fabrication process through scale replicas.
SupportThe Paper Museum is frequently referenced as source of study for the pedagogical-didactic analysis of dynamical and observational practices and always provides all the support and the required documents.
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