QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE SOCIO-CULTURAL ROLE AND UTILITY OF
MATERIAL CULTURE MUSEUMS

EMERGE

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1. Do you know the museums of material culture in your city? (Museums of Geology, Paleontology, History, Archeology, Astronomy, Natural History etc.) If not, could you say why?

2. What are the museums of material culture you frequently visit?

3. Do you believe that collections are of great valeu and interest to you? Explain.

4. Have you ever used content you learnt in a museum to work in the conception of a piece?

5. Have you ever been in a museum of material cutlture with the intention to create to make a proposal to do research in order to create a new piece?

6. How do you imagine an ideal colaboration with a museum of material culture for the conception and making of a piece, an exhibition or workshop?

7. Have you tried establishing any sort of partnership with a local museum? Which one? What was result?

8. Do you blieve that your research and artistic carreer could benefir from a colaboration with a museum of material culture? How could it happen?

9. What do you think museums of material culture could do to become more useful in daily life?

Background Image: Andy Warhol. Raid the Icebox. 1969.
Courtesy of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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1. Do you appreciate vitsiting museums of material culture in your city? (Museums of Geology, Paleontology, History, Archeology, Astronomy, Natural History etc.)

2. If yes to last question, which ones do you know and what motivates you to visiting them?

3. Do you consider that the museums of material culture of your city are part of people's lives? In what way?

4. How do you imagine that a museum could contribute in your personal life. What about society in general?

5. What do you think museums could do to become more useful in people's lives?