Acessibilidade em Museus Universitários: Um olhar para os Museus da UFU

Abstract

Museums are opportune institutions for the promoting culture and education, characterized by being a space that values science in general, without disassociating itself from playfulness in its activities. Museums can have different origins and purposes, such as university museums, which are linked to universities and spread scientific knowledge to the external community. Within museums, however, it is necessary to think about actions that make it accessible to all audiences, practicing inclusion through the fulfillment of their social function. Therefore, through this work, a study on museums linked to the Federal University of Uberlândia through the Museum System is carried out, namely, the Minerias e Rochas Museum, do Índio Museum, Biodiversidade do Cerrado Museum, Museu Universitário de Arte Museum and the Diversão com Ciência e Arte Museum, seeking to know the reality of each of them, as well as their relationship with the university, in order to understand what are the possibilities in relation to adherence to inclusion and accessibility policies in these spaces. Bearing in mind that these museums lack material and financial resources, we understand that major changes are not yet capable of being implemented; however, because there is an interest on the part of the team that coordinates them in carrying out changes that may be possible in the face of each person's reality, we hope that, as far as possible, museums can adapt to museum standards.