Apropiación del Museo Botero: el caso de los estudiantes de la IED María Mercedes Carranza

Abstract

The last cultural consumption survey of DANE2 (2014) records that from 4323 people in Colombia between the ages of 5 and 11, 15.9% attended a museum in the last twelve months and 5.9% went to art galleries and exhibition rooms, these results - and others - raise the basis of this research, whose purpose is to generate a sense of belonging in fifth grade students (502) of IED María Mercedes Carranza for the Botero Museum, located in La Localidad de la Candelaria, which has more than 200 art pieces of international painters and one of the most important artists of recent times in Colombia, Fernando Botero. In the first place, a questionnaire was applied, it had 20 questions related to culture, art, cultural heritage, Fernando Botero’s artistic work and the Museum itself. After that, a didactic proposal was designed with the objective of making students appropriate those concepts and also interact with the museum from the classroom and in the third place, the final questionnaire that allowed to measure the impact of the intervention. The results reveal that are minimal the times that students have the opportunity to attend cultural spaces, in addition, not knowing about the concepts, the artist and the museum. The didactic proposal achieved the students to appropriate the Botero Museum, 100% would like to visit it, however, this intervention must transcend beyond the school room, the institution must manage a pedagogical excursion inside the Botero Museum, thus specifying the goal of this research and realizing the Botero’s desire, enunciated the day of the inauguration in 2000