Ricard Huerta and Paula Jardón, researchers at IUCIE, have recently published the book Museums in Creative Mode with Editorial Graó.
Museos en modo creativo raises the suitability of museum visits as a spur to creativity. Museums are spaces for proposing heritage education programs that develop and reinforce creative, critical, and divergent thinking. The intention is to generate positive synergies between museums and educational centres. We review some classic theories on creativity, examining the reasons for the distrust of the term in contemporary cultural debate. We investigate the necessary components for creativity to be integrated into the activities proposed by museums. We analyze how a gender perspective promotes the development of creativity, addressing its absences and how to make women present in museum discourses. The traditionally elitist nature of museums has generated barriers that hinder access for broad sectors, especially people with disabilities. A creative attitude is fundamental to social, cultural, technological, and scientific advances. It is the key to collaboratively transforming a future that seems fragile and unpredictable. As learning environments, museums have their limitations, but also strengths and opportunities that do not exist in other formal settings. Audiences decide how their own learning process will unfold, choosing the intensity and duration of their interactions with museum offerings based on their personal interests. This book is part of the project "DECHADOS. Inclusive Creativity in Secondary School through the Relationship between Schools and Museums" (Ref. PID2021-123007OB-I00).
