Museipedagogik och livslångt lärande

The role of museum educationat a university of the Third AgeMuseum education is most often connected with the cooperation between museums, preschools and schools. The best known teaching methods are traditional guided museum visits and workshops. Museum education is often considered as a supplement to exhibitions. Museums have much more to give. Museums have the expertise of their personnel, their collections, archives, publications and research, which reach outside the museum walls to the culcural landscape, builc environment, sites and monuments - to everyone's everyday experience. All these offer diverse alternatives for many different ways of teaching and for life-long learning. Museum education is, indeed, for all and museums should have the competence to handle and offer adult education too.