O campo da educação museal: possibilidades e desafios para o levantamento de informações e construção de indicadores

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the recent efforts undertaken to gather information in the field of Brazilian museum education with a view to producing indicators. For this we reflect on the importance of the use of indicators in the elaboration and implementation of public policies, we draw a historical panorama of the museums public policies Brazil from the decade of 1930 until the contemporaneity, we recall the research already accomplished in the field of the museums and we discuss the methodology of information gathering used by the Brazilian Institute of Museums - Ibram from the analysis of two questionnaires elaborated and partially applied in this process. From these reflections, we believe that, although there is still a long way to go in search of information and indicators for museum education, the initiatives that are underway point to encouraging paths.