A Night at the Museum: Museum Education with Ankara University Students at Çorum Museum of Archeology

Abstract

Education is the primary function of the contemporary museums at the present time. Therefore, the museum, which has been cited as the child and family friendly qualities in order to perform public education for the second half of the 20th century, becomes the multi-faceted organization which prioritizes community services, education and the sustainability of the other services. Even though museum education has not been entirely adopted among most of the museums in Turkey yet, some of them succeed to install museum education philosophy and principles into the primary and secondary schools and higher education institutions. This study focuses on the museum education course taught in the national curriculum of the Teacher’s Training Program at Ankara University, Faculty of Education. Researchers determine the content of the program and emphasize the notion of the course as a whole process, theoretical studies, observations and students’ evaluations from the program content including their experiences at the Çorum Museum of Archeology.