What is it about?
This article presents the results of a questionnaire on the visiting habits, motivations and attitudes towards museums, answered by 634 students from Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts of five Portuguese universities. In general, there is a positive participation in their visit to museums. The most frequent visitors are more critical about their experiences in museums and, driven by internal motivations, they also reveal a bigger openness to participate in the life of museums. The results indicate that participants’ academic background has an important influence on their experiences with museums. Art students are the ones who visit museums the most. This group also reveals to have greater expectations about their future as museum visitors and consider more relevant the learning opportunities offered by museums. Keywords: cultural practices; university students; museums; academic capital
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Why is it important?
Focus on cultural practices, university students, museums in Portugal
Perspectives
I hope this article makes what people might think about the importance of museums for the education of young university students
Dr Joao Pedro Frois
Centre for Phenomenological Psychology and Aesthetics, Univ. of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: A Experiência de Visita a Museus por Estudantes Universitários Portugueses de Artes, Humanidades e Ciências Sociais: Perceções, Motivações e Atitudes, Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia, April 2017, Coimbra University Press,
DOI: 10.14195/1647-8614_50-2_1.
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