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The Education Departments within museum and their art educational programs have become increasingly important in order to evaluate the mission statement of institutions. The goal of any educational program is to engage visitors with art, developing skills such as how to see an artwork, delivering accurate content about the exhibition, promoting critical thinking, and above all, doing it in a meaningful way for the audiences. In order to understand in greater depth the work currently done by Museum Educators for visitors to enjoy and make the most out of their experiences within museums, the following analysis aims to identify the central issue within the art education process, through description and reflection on the representative theories, methods and strategies applied in art educational programs of visual arts museums. The aim is to understand the nature of learning and how it is relevant to achieve the mission statement of a museum in order to attract their audiences and develop new audiences in the surround community. Recent studies in the United States have shown the importance of arts education to develop creativity, critical thinking and visual literacy in children and youth. However, what happened in Art Museums, spaces exclusively dedicated not only to display their collections, but also develop an important role in the education of its visitors, through its public programs. What have educational department of museum done to develop creativity, critical thinking, social conscience, art history, and aesthetics appreciation? How do museum educator expand their repertoire to better engage their most struggling visitors? What have museum educators done to help visitors to construct meaningful knowledge? What other benef... ... middle of paper ... ...showcases the diverse creations and opinions of non-experts. People use the institution as meeting grounds for dialogue around the content presented. Instead of being “about” something or “for” someone, participatory institutions are created and managed “with” visitors.” (Simon, 2010) Therefore, the visual arts have the power and represent an opportunity for viewers to enrich their critical thinking, not just visual literacy, that should become visually literate in a particular way that encourages critical thinking and be measurable in standardized achievements tests. The arts become both a process of discovery and a scaffolding through which responses and actions may be generated. As described by Elliot Kai-Ke “The museum should be seen not so much as a place where knowledge is transmitted, but rather as a place where knowledge is produced.” (Kai-Ke, 2011, p. 46)

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