Discovering Museums – Digital Museum Resource for Education

The Museum Education and Methodology Centre, Hungarian Open Air Museum
is pleased to invite you to the international conference titled
Discovering Museums – Digital Museum Resource for Education
in the framework of the priority project Museum and library development for everyone
no. EFOP-3.3.3-VEKOP-16-2016-00001, to take place
on 29 April 2019

 

The invited speakers of the conference, both national and international, present the good practices and methodologies of teaching materials prepared by using digitalised museum collections. These digital teaching materials are of crucial importance in helping teachers and students use museum resource based on creativity and active participation both in museums and schools, furthermore in making museum collections accessible for public education.

Following the plenary session, workshops on developing teaching materials based on museum collections are run with the participation of the invited speakers.

Museum educators, teachers, public education experts, knowledge transfer professionals and museum leaders are expected to participate at the conference.

REGISTRATION
Participation at the conference is free of charge (financed by our project), but it is subject to prior registration.

The conference language is English; simultaneous interpretation is provided at each programme.

Time: 9:45-17:00 Monday 29 April 2019
Venue: Conference Room, Hungarian Open Air Museum
Address: HU-2000 Szentendre, Sztaravodai út 75.

 

PROGRAMME

09:45 - 10:15 REGISTRATION

10:15 - 10:25: Welcome speech – Dr. Miklós Cseri, director general, Hungarian Open Air Museum

10:30 - 10:40: Opening speech – Hajnal Kassai, head of public collection division, Ministry of Human Capacities

10:45 - 11:00 Methodology development for utilising digitalised museum resources in public education – Magdolna Nagy, acting director, Museum Education and Methodology Centre, Hungarian Open Air Museum

11:05 - 11:25 What teachers want from a digitalised museum resources – Naomi Chapman, Education and Outreach, Polar Museum, Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge, UK

11:30 - 11:45 Questions and comments

 

11:45 - 12:15 Coffee break

 

12:15 – 12:35 Digital resource in ethnographic museums – Krisztina Pálóczy, museologist, Museum of Ethnography

12:40 - 12:55 Questions and comments

13:00 -13:20 Mór Jókai and the Man with the Golden Touch – Digital guides for teachers – Diána Sóki, museum educator, Petőfi Literary Museum

13:25 - 13:40 Questions and comments

13:45 – 14:05 Digital teaching materials and art collections – Rufino Ferreras, head of education, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

14:10 – 14:25 Questions and comments

 

14:25 - 15:25 LUNCH

 

15:25 - 16:25 Workshops on making teaching materials
I. Digitalised collections in the classroom
Venue: Conference Room
Facilitator: Ádám Horváth, head of division, Digital Methodology Centre for Pedagogy

II. Digitalised teaching materials before and after museum visits
Venue: Executive Meeting Room
Facilitator: Éva Kómár, OMMIK –  Hungarian National Museum

III. Digital museum resource and the demands of public education
Venue: Ground floor Meeting Room
Facilitator: Márton Pacsika – Museum Education and Methodology Centre, Hungarian Open Air Museum

16:30 – 16:45 Brief reports about workshops

16:50 – 17:00 Closing remarks

Márton Pacsika –  Museum Education and Methodology Centre, Hungarian Open Air Museum

 

The organiser reserves the right at its discretion to make changes to the programme.
In case of questions, please contact Márton Pacsika: pacsika.marton@skanzen.hu  Phone: +36 30 322 8946
The organiser of the conference is the Museum Education and Methodology Centre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, Szentendre