El Museo Complutense de la Educación: un espacio facilitador de aprendizajes y experiencias innovadoras

Abstract

Since its foundation, the Complutense Museum of Education (MCE) promotes the knowledge of the historical-educational heritage as a didactic resource in different types of visits. In this article we briefly present the museum: its background and its most significant collections. We dwell in more detail on the description of visits and teaching activities, usually carried out in collaboration, some of them punctual and others almost teaching units that complement Bachelor's or Master's courses. We will also talk about other unique activities and initiatives to which the museum devotes special attention, including temporary exhibitions and in particular, those related to groups that are not used to visiting these institutions, such as the elderly and people with functional diversity.
The approach applied in these tasks is situated within the paradigm of educational innovation: getting to know the museum with a participatory attitude and critically identifying its resources, our school heritage, as a source of future research projects. The MCE thus remains a museum space that facilitates learning and experiences in tune with its founding objectives.