Mediações instrumental e humana: um olhar sobre o Museu dos Diniossauros de Uberaba-MG

Abstract

This study is part of the research line of teacher training and digital culture. In recent years, science museums have stood out as spaces of non-formal education for science teaching and because of that, their mediations are presented as the main link between scientific knowledge and visitors, contributing to teaching-learning and scientific dissemination. In the case of these museums, we can highlight the instrumental and human mediations. Therefore, in our context we seek to highlight the Museological Communication of science museums, through the STSE Approach (Science, Technology, Society and Environment) and the Public Communication of Science, passing into the studied mediations. Instrumental mediation in science museums is present in their exhibitions, through linguistic messages, symbols and signs, and human mediation through mediators. For this reason, in this work we seeked to understand how the human and instrumental mediations ocurred in the Museum of Dinosaurs, located in the rural district of Peirópolis, in the city of Uberaba MG, were guided by characterizing their instrumental mediation through their exhibitions and analyze the development and role of human mediation through reports from its former mediators. In this way, for instrumental mediation we used images from the exhibits of the Museum of Dinosaurs and analyzed them through Semiological Analysis; and for human mediation, we conducted interviews with former mediators and analyzed them using Discursive Textual Analysis. We emphasize that the mediations of the Museum of Dinosaurs contribute to scientific dissemination and have the potential for improvement. However, although instrumental mediation is present in the museum, its messages are complex and with little information, making the visitor's autonomy difficult and making him always resort to mediators. This shows us that, considering only its instrumental mediation, the Museum of Dinosaurs is conceptually close to a traditional museum, with passive visits, in which visitors have little reflection and question themselves about scientific knowledge. Consequently, the human mediation of the museum becomes its main axis for obtaining an adequate teaching-learning and satisfactory scientific dissemination. In this sense, we verified that it is indispensable a continuous training for the mediators and also, the need to improve the educational sector of the museum, mainly, developing its Museological Plan.