ACCELERATING CHILDREN'S MUSEUMS IN V4

"A children's museum is an investment in the future. By helping to establish a children's museum, society supports its own development: future leading engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, teachers, craftsmen and dreamers who are still children today."

Mary Sinker, longtime director of the Kohl Children's Museum, Chicago, USA.

 

The first children's museums were created in the USA more than 100 years ago. In the 1970s, Western European countries were inspired by this system and began to reform classic museums. In order for us to make museums accessible to the general public, integrate them into the education system and thus significantly increase the effect of creative education on society, we decided to reach out to partners from the Visegrad Four and prepared a joint project called "Accelerating children's museums in V4".

 

This project, for which we obtained resources from the International Visegrad Fund, made it possible to increase the qualifications of managers in the management of children's museums in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland, so that these organizations, focusing on working with children, are successful, stabilized and their operations are sustainable.