The LLML project

LLML offered museum practitioners the opportunity to develop the skills to deal with underrepresented segments of the public in a European perspective while exchanging experiences with colleagues belonging to different countries and institutional frameworks. It also offered the general public, and in particular adults, a wider and more qualified access to cultural heritage and to museums through educational offers tailored to their expectations and learning styles.

The project set out from the idea that the potential of non formal learning environments - such as museums - should be fully exploited to fulfil the Community policies aiming at providing opportunities for everybody to learn and bringing learning closer to the citizens.

Museums in particular all over Europe have been reviewing their role, adding a new facet to their mission in terms of their relationship with society and the local community and have undertaken significant actions to become agents of social change, places for reconciliation, agents of social integration, bringing more people back into the learning cycle.

This shift of focus from the collections to the people, however, needs to be supported in terms of skills and competencies required to museum educational staff. The innovation involved in opening up to new audiences (adult learners, disadvantaged groups) calls for a major effort in terms of training initiatives addressed to museum educators.

The project "Lifelong museum learning" addressed museum educators/cultural mediators in charge of adult education in museums or wanting to develop programmes addressed to adults in and with museums. It was a project which aimed at designing, delivering and disseminating training and didactic material to support museum educators facing a new challenge in their work. It tried to do so by drawing on good practices developed at a European level, case studies directly experienced or collected by partners, and on the expertise and vital contribution of experienced trainers in the field. It rested on an in depth training needs analysis carried out at the outset of the project and developed materials for dissemination which reached a wide segment of the profession, not only in the partner countries, but Europe-wide.

The final publication

EN - Lifelong Learning in Museums A European Handbook

IT - Musei e apprendimento lungo tutto l’arco della vita Un manuale europeo

DE - Handbook "Lebenlanges Lernen und Museen"

RU - Учение в течение всей жизни в музеях Европейский опыт

LV - Mūžizglītība muzejā – Eiropas rokasgrāmata (electronic file not available)

LLML project description in Italian

LLML old website: www.amitie.it/llml/en/index.htm