Estudo de público no Museu Antares de Ciência / Tecnologia em Feira de Santana-BA

Abstract

The research entitled Antares Museum of Science and Technology: an evaluation of the visiting public in the period from 2009 to 2012, has as main objective to analyze the visiting public of the Antares Museum of Science and Technology in the period between 2009 and 2012. It is assumed that it is essential to know the profile of the public that visits museum institutions to think about the development of strategies that provides greater interaction between the museum, science and the individual, making this closer relationship for the construction of knowledge and dissemination of science and technology. The hypothesis about the lack of public in museums is based on in the absence of knowledge of your profile. It is necessary to build knowledge related to the evaluation of the public that visits the museum institutions, since in Brazil, public evaluation studies are still considered recent.To achieve the proposed objective, we opted for exploratory research with a descriptive and qualitative and quantitative nature. The results showed that the profile of visitors to the Antares museum is, in its vast majority, made up of schoolchildren,who have visited the museum once or twice. This information underscores the importance didactic-pedagogical that a museum has.