Abstract:
Education is a process that goes far beyond the appropriation of knowledge in the
classroom. Considering that the promotion of educational activities can be developed in
different spaces that link the individual's prior knowledge to new experiences, the museum
shows itself as a place that can be integrated and apprehended information. The Casa do
Pontal Museum, classified as a popular art museum, is a fruitful place for the knowledge,
recognition and identification of the individual, based on an exhibition of themes that address
the daily life and manifestations of the people. Faced with the concept of popular, sometimes
opposed to that of the scholar, the possibilities of the power of other educational processes
and their historical context are glimpsed, verifying the relevance of the so-called "museal
education" in cultural formation and subject learning. Based on bibliographic research,
qualitative research, fieldwork and visits supported by the observation methodology at the
Casa do Pontal Museum, we seek to understand the perception of visitors about the museum
and its exhibition, as well as to analyze the relationship between the collection and the visitor,
concatenating the educational experience with the notions of heritage and museum education,
carried out in a special and charming way in the aforementioned museum, which makes it, in
fact, a space of rare experience.
