There is a need to include museums in education from kindergarten, as they can provide memorable and engaging learning experiences, provoke imagination, present worlds and unknown subjects and offer unique environments for quality moments with family or new projects at school. "Museums offer a dynamic opportunity to expose children to experiences and explore new things in a rich and educational environment. 

Exhibition on Amadeo de Souza Cardoso 

at Casa da Cerca

Through interactive displays and practical play, children can appropriate his learning, developing and exploring his curiosities.  A new exhibition provides the child with the basis for creativity, critical thinking and connection with the world around him.

Art offers another unique experience, a different stimulus, the possibility to understand and explore innovative perceptions, feelings and thoughts.

Workshop on Amadeo de Souza Cardoso's exhibition at Casa da Cerca

Museums offer a space for reflection, experimentation, inspiration, creativity and fun, allowing the child to go learning experiences and stimulating games. Providing children with a visit to the museum reveals that children and adults are equally active in learning, putting them in partnership while creating a common project.

The Museum can promote information from different times and places, helping the child gain understanding of the past. 

With the Almada Archeology Center 

at Municipal Historical Archive of Almada

By sharing conversations about favorite objects, family stories and historical events, learning extends to family and community. Lifelong learning begins from birth and early exposure to museums stimulates children's curiosity, arouse interest in history, art and science. 

As museums are a place of excellence, visiting exhibitions from an early age creates visitors for the rest of their lives. Art in a museum, can be used as a way of speaking, of expression, for the child to explore and learn from peers. 

With the Almada Archeology Center 

and  the  actress...

... recreating the water-bearer 

at Chafariz.

The child used to visit museums has another horizon for different ideas and perspectives that may be relevant to their lives. An exhibition can help develop critical and creative thinking skills that are essential to future success. In a Museum prepared to receive children, educational activities and resources aim to stimulate discussion by transforming galleries into laboratories of ideas.  The child's curiosity for the world around him and for the people and things that compose him can be extended largely with visits to museums and their exhibitions.

Michel Giacometti Labor Museum.

Museums strive to make art and programs accessible to children, hoping to share their resources   in an enriching and welcoming environment. Children of all ages regularly exposed to museums receive a solid foundation for intellectual knowledge, growth and development, making museums the perfect place for children to explore, research and observe new things. It is very important to introduce children to museums   because the future of the world and museums broaden our knowledge of the world around us.

Michel Giacometti Labor Museum.

How to help children to know and value their cultural and natural heritage?

Before the museum visit:

• What is a museum?

• What is a museum for?

• What are you going to do to this museum?

• What do you know about this subject?

• What would you like to learn about this?

• Why?

• How will you make this visit to the museum?