Fourteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Abstract

Rapidly ageing population increases the demand for activities with learning and social stimulation. Museums are well placed to provide such a function reaching individual and social impacts but with visits reduced by normatives of isolation and waves of museums closed is very important to understand what impacts can be lost and achieved. The objective to identify evidence for relationships between museums and older audiences using a review of 8 databases and 2 university repositories. The search retrieved 810 potential sources, 39 sources met the inclusion criteria. They focused on the educational aspect of museums and were produced by psychology and gerontology, museology, arts and education disciplines. Museums play an important role on health (emphasis on psychological and physical wellbeing), socialization (discussing stereotypes, reducing isolation, redefining social roles), socioeconomic aspects (with local focus on services, partnerships) and on creative aging (promoting non-formal education with lifelong learning at different levels).