Fourteenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Abstract

This study illustrates the potentialities and the limitations of teaching “museum learning” in distance to future kindergarten teachers in the Department of Preschool Education at the University of Crete, during the academic year of 2020-2021. It is about preliminary research which focuses on listening to the students’ voices, their previous experiences about museums but also their real needs and interests in museum learning, taking to the consideration the conditions of the Covid-10 pandemic in Greece and the long lockdown with closed museums and Universities. The main tools of the research were a questionnaire designed in google forms and the diary I kept during the course. The first results of the analysis of the data show that new technologies not only provide the museums and the universities with the possibility of digital “access” to the learning procedure and to the knowledge but also offer the sense of sharing, selection, connections, active involvement and democratization, giving everyone access during this difficult period. However, many students note that they would love to visit the museums after the end of this crisis.