Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

This paper reveals how what is presented as national heritage, creates, images, perceptions, and implications in those who attend the museum. In this case study, the visitors selected where boys and girls from ten to eighteen years old, who visited the National History Museum of Chile. The methods used were mainly ethnographic ones, were data were collected through participant observation of their visits as well as focus groups after them, which was later analyzed. The results of this process reveals not only the discourse the museum wants to transmit, but also, a series of other concepts, ideas, and images that are created as a hidden curriculum, stating the museum as a non-neutral nor innocuous place.