Abstract

SILVA, Vera Lucia Gaspar da  and  SCAGLIOLA, Gabriel. The Museum and Library of Pedagogy: a grand experimental showcase of popular science (Montevideo / Uruguay, 1889...). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e105.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-105.

The Museum of Pedagogy of Uruguay was founded in Montevideo in 1889, paired with a Library of Pedagogy in a project that sought international dialog. It functions included practical training for primary school teachers with laboratories and instruments that could test practices, disseminate pedagogical ideas and exhibit artifacts that could help form ideal models for schools. The Museum also helped the sale of these artifacts. Alberto Gómez Ruano (1858-1923), its first director, had a fundamental role in the creation of the Institutos Nacionales: Museo y Archivo Histórico Municipal, of the Servicio Meteorológico of Uruguay and of the Biblioteca y Museo Pedagógicos, a state apparatus dedicated to science and modernization. Like similar institutions of this kind, the museum served as a channel for connections with other countries, promoting the exchange of items for the collections, information about management and organization, visits, arrangements for the exhibition and the sale of artifacts.

Keywords : Museum of Pedagogy; Circulation of pedagogical ideas; Material school culture; José Pedro Varela Pedagogical Museum.

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