The contribution of cultural heritage education in the construction of memory

Abstract

While the heritage is intimately linked to collective memories, but also to individual ones, we are interested here to reflect on their contribution in the construction of the memories in communities. It is a work mainly carried out by the educational teams of museums and often based on the premises of Cultural Heritage Education whose goal is precisely to value cultural diversity through the valorization of local identity. We also present, in a brief way, the project Entre Memórias - itinerant heritage education and some of the actions that it realizes within the Portuguese cultural heritage, participating in this way, in the process of memory building through Cultural Heritage Education.