Our students can learn in a museum because they will be active and active learning is a better and deeper learning. They will experiment in the museum. They will use objects. They will open up and discuss. They will be co-creators.  The focus on community is crucial. And as Lev Vygotsky has said, learning is an social function.

 I think it was a very interesting and fascinating speech. I agree with Nina’s idea of transforming a simple visit to a museum to a cultural experience that involves people and artefacts. The museum becomes interesting for the pupils if they are involved in a lab. Active participation and involvement is the key to open up museums to all generations, ages and nationalities. 

Museum as a "community center" understood as meaningful and active involvement and participation of members coming from outside in museum programs.
 Key points:
 1) COMMUNITY AS CO-CREATOR
 2) ARTIFACTS AS SOCIAL OBJECTS
 3) MUSEUMS THAT MATTER.
 Community members and museum staff work together to achieve shared goals. Everyone plays a role. Members participate in museum programs, contribute with artifacts, stories, research, support and social awareness. The staff deals with training, input and support in the design, structure and organization.
 Museum as a "center of intellectual growth" and social, open to everyone and a place for self-discovery of oneself. 

The knowledge and active involvement of students in the creation and implementation of a project can be a reason to approach the culture, the knowledge of their surroundings and their identity. It allows you to gain experience and acquire the ability to design, plan and plan. In addition, we also achieve transversal skills: spirit of initiative, creative thinking, ability to choose and decide, develop interpersonal relationships by working in teams, personal fulfillment. 

I would like the museums to be more open to the public, they are preservation institutions, but they should also be places to create new memories. They should be learning places not only for specialists but for everyone. The museum is not just the shell, it's not just the exhibits, it's not just the expert scientists, it's the people who visit them, it's the memories these people will have.

I agree with Nina more or less. 

I think though that her main points are of great importance in certain types of museums. An emphasis on the artifacts themselves is crucial when it comes to emblematic archaeological museums, for example. Interactive and involvement mechanisms should be activated on a larger scale, if we really want our visitors not just socialize or feel better but realize and learn instead! Connection with the artifacts via connection with others is a main target, isn’t it? 

In her speech ,Nina, tries to change the way museums are perceived . In our mind museums are spaces where objects of historical, artistic and cultural interest are stored and exhibited. She comes with a new idea , she whats to find a way to attract people in a museum, she proposes activities that let people to be actively implied in each event organised in the museum. 

With our new program Digital Meets Heritage we try to bridge this spatial gap, and make museum experiences affordably attainable to ardent young explorers of the world's cultural heritage, by inviting them to take up virtual journeys (using VR technology) to their favourite sites and museums, and at least virtually feel the magnificence of these 'keepers of time and humanity's memory'. 

In addition, our students are encouraged to describe these virtual experiences using digital tools, such as blogs, and videos, thus contributing towards preserving the heritage through the digital, and enabling an even greater interactivity and connectivity on a much larger scale.

I wish more museums were available on VR Apps! Maybe that should be the next step in opening up museums to everyone on this planet, and creating a global community of museum-goers, virtually at least! 

“..we can transform museums from things that are nice to have tt things that are really necessary to move community forward ..  “

I think that Nina Simone has a very radical and our of the box vision of what a Museum should and could be. I think she overexagerates a lot. My vision of a museum is not the same as that of a community centre. We don't go to these two places with the same purpose and don't expect to have similar experiences. I believe that humans should look at the works of art shared in museum rooms as the best, the most exquisit creations of some lucky few (the artists) and learn from it. Museums are very special places and not banal areas where you go to have some drinks, meet with friends and chat. That is not the purpose and should never be. 

Museum shoud be an open space. It should  be a place where we can meet each other, communicate, make experiments, create, reproduce science, act, participate in panels. Museum should give us an experience and a lesson for life outside of the museum, lesson of lifelong learning, It should teach us to respect each other, to receive differences between us. It should teach  us to be better  human beings. 

It is imortant, especially for children, that they can participate in different activities  of the museum and these is what our museums gives us.

I find Nina Simon's ideas really interesting and innovative. It completely changes the meaning of the word "Museum", which goes from being a place for the elite, to a place of social aggregation under the meaning of cultural growth. this is beautiful! Our society needs aggregation, in the sense of communicating confidently with the other that we do not know, and above all of growing culturally. And what place to be better than a museum? I believe that provide our students with the opportunity to experience a new way of learning is a wonderful opportunity for growth. By now it is undisputed that our rockets have different learning styles, that is, this is a different way of learning. This does not mean that we can continue to use the museum in the traditional way. 

As this boring situation changed the last decades, museums are an important place that can generate a different experience to us and our pupils while paying a visit and Nina Simon highlights this social inclusion processes and lifelong learning. Both pupils and adults can be co-creators during a study visit to a museum participating in a museum’s exhibition on a related topic. 

Artifacts and exhibits are not there just to look and admire them, but they can trigger visitors memories and experiences encouraging them to be involved in creating collaboratively something new in a space where community is built and lived. And this makes for sure a museum a place that matters as everyone can bring its own character despite the cultural diversities. 

Nina Simon’s ideas are about making experiences in a museum a learning but also a social opportunity. From her point of view museums show us artifacts or natural remains that may offer us a starting point for building or improving our knowledge about what they represent but also for sharing and comparing ideas and contribute to creating a culture of acceptance. I don’t think the focus on community in museums may distract from learning about the topics the museum is based on, the focus on community helps making museums places for culture that are alive and attract people who enjoy going there because they know that by creating ties and connections they will contribute to build a net of like-minded people working for a better, more educated and more tolerant society. 

This  new way of presenting artefacts can motivate  and involve my students giving them different tools to learn.

Community in museums doesn’t distract from learning about the topics of exhibition but it adds something more :good tools,give value to contributions etc.

 

Museums are often secondary leading institutions lacking the invitation to contribute.
Nina Simon's ideas about opening museums are very good, it is much more attractive to learn and share knowledge.

The vision of Nina Simon is an open space where everyone can actively participate and connect with the culture and each other. "... we can transform museums from things that are nice to have things that are really necessary to move the community forward."

 

Involve people in artifact-related activities; make them decide which artifacts are relevant to the museum, and how they should be displayed.

 
Promoting activities with the artifacts on display to get people to connect with the artifacts and encourage them to want to know more about them and  to connect people who are different and who have different points of view so that they learn from each other

 

So, by creating ways to get the visitor to actively participate in the museum's exhibition, we can turn artifacts into exhibits in museums as a powerful tool to get 

people to interact and talk about important issues such as where we were, where we are now., and where we want to go.

 

In this sense I would like to recommend an interesting video from another important woman in museums context, Sarah Kenderdine: