Virtual workshop "The object as a document and source of information, work with material resources"
"The object as a document and source of information, work with material resources"
Educational and pedagogical workshops (lessons) "The object as a document and source of information, work with material resources" (The role and importance of the museum in preserving cultural heritage) have been running continuously for a decade in cooperation with the Maritime Museum Piran and Secondary School Piran. It is a major Maritime Museum's promotion for the young generation in the local environment. Students get acquainted with the museological treatment of museum items, history, ethnology and archaeology, they deepen and expand their knowledge and form their attitude towards cultural heritage and the preservation of family cultural heritage.
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, we conducted, due to the circumstances related to the corona virus, an educational pedagogical workshop with the Secondary School of Piran for the first time virtually. Dr. Nadja Terčon, Bogdana Marinac and Snježana Karinja, who had also led these workshops in the past, carried them out this time virtually via the Zoom application. They prepared introductory lectures, followed by interaction with the first-year Secondary School students, who were divided into three groups.
On the basis of lectures and museum workshops, the students become acquainted wit the museum as an institution, the nature of work in the museum and, last but not least, work with museum items of various shapes, materials and meanings. During this workshop they also get the first marks in history lessons led by Sonja Bizjak. Before the workshop, students receive a worksheet to help them during the workshop and while writing the report. They choose the historical source kept by their families and process it in the way presented to them in the workshop. The experience of this virtual workshop was very good indeed, as the students actively participated in identifying the source, many presented the selected subject historically related to their families, which was certainly of interest not only to the students but to the curators as well.
The work carried out so far has proved that the goals of acquiring and deepening knowledge and shaping attitudes towards cultural heritage, preserving cultural heritage, education and guiding young people in the right way to approach research and independently present conclusions have even been exceeded. Students are fascinated by the stories of the found and presented stories, they learn to correlate knowledge gained in school and museum workshops, acquire skills of collecting, analysing, synthesising, using and interpreting, and form their own, more positive attitude towards heritage.
