I Grew Up in a Museum: How Cultural Education Drives Demand for the Arts

15:00 — 16:20 (May 21)
Moscow Museum
Cinema


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Panel Discussion

The educational function of museums has evolved from supplementary to central. Museums now serve as spaces where adolescents explore roles, develop interests, and find their cultural voice. Cultural education becomes an embedded practice — regular, habitual, woven into daily life. Museums transition from artifact repositories to environments for cultural maturation and identity formation.
As institutional responsibilities of museums expand, a new role emerges: the museum as mentor. This demands sustained partnerships with schools that are able to maintain youth engagement long-term. Systemic programs are replacing one-time tours; with dry lectures displaced by engagements, interactive routes, and gamified learning formats.
Museum-based cultural education programs demonstrate the potential to profoundly transform cultural landscapes. They create new engagement models where visitors perceive heritage as a part of their identity, connecting the past with the present and future.

• Internal motivation: Which formats work best with children and adolescents?
• Long-term partnerships: How to effectively structure museum education programs?
• Museum mentorship: How do museums appropriate this new role?

Speakers:
Artem Arutyunov, Head of Educational Projects and Events Department, State Historical Museum
Vyacheslav Klimentov, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Museum of Cosmonautics
Inna Krylova, Program Director, Heritage School, Museum of Moscow
Aleksey Yakovlev, Deputy Director for Museum Activities, Gorki Leninskie Museum-Reserve
Ivan Yashchenko, Academic Supervisor, Centre for Pedagogical Excellence

Foremost expert:
Maria Voytsik, Coordinator, "Museums. Parks. Estates" Academic Olympics