Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

The Natural Science Museum of Barcelona (Spain) has engaged in an outreach project that is proving to successfully overcome the physical and often also mental boundaries related to a science museum. The annual Long Night of Museums has become the tool to achieve a real public co-programming at the Museum. It triggers exponentially the density of a (stubbornly built) vicinity synergy mesh in a socially and economically deprived neighbourhood, with initially little interest in the Museum. This will be the fourth year that the Museum premises become a space for creation and celebration for our neighbourhood communities. Last year we counted with the participation of eight artistic and cultural groups, with whom we planned, programmed, implemented, and energized the Night of Museums. The implication of the communities in the actual programming has an impact on relevant and interesting proposals for proximity publics and non-publics. That night they felt the Museum was really theirs, and our challenge is to prolong that feeling, which is actually a fact in a public museum.