Museu virtual: uma ferramenta para a formação da cidadania por meio do ensino digital e da história pública

Virtual museum: a tool for citizenship education through digital teaching and public history

Abstract

The text discusses the relevance of the virtual museum Rio Memórias for the understanding of citizenship formation, historical-cultural heritage, public history, and memory. Educational formation is a process that seeks to enable the individual to fully exercise citizenship and to develop professional skills. This process can occur in various spaces of human coexistence, such as in the family, in interpersonal relationships, in the workplace, in educational institutions, in social movements, in civil organizations and in different forms of collective manifestations. In this sense,
the virtual museum is understood as a virtual space of mediation and relationship of the heritage, which uses communication as a way to involve and spread the knowledge existing in its digital collection. The virtual museum Rio Memórias, in particular, is an example of how the use of new information and communication technologies can contribute to the formation of citizenship, valuing cultural diversity and the preservation of cultural and environmental heritag.