ART MUSEUMS AND EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN MUSEUMS AND ART EDUCATION TEACHERS

The present work focuses on the teaching of visual arts in Santiago, Chile, and the way in which teachers relate with the educative function of Art Museums. Nowadays, the school has lost its key role in teaching since it is no longer thought of as the central nucleus of knowledge due to massive Internet access, mass media and formal and informal initiatives which are crucial in the teaching-learning process. One of these institutions is the art museum, which has developed a powerful teaching mission in the last decades. This work is the result of the research "Art museums and teaching, alliances among museums and teachers of Arts" and centres on studying the relationship between the museum of art and artistic education at schools. In order to establish those relations, a qualitative methodology was used through semi-structured interviews to forty teachers, eight museums and three institutions that have given a great contribution to non-formal art teaching. The results were analysed in an interpretative-descriptive way so as to have meaningful conclusions about the real nexus among art teachers, museums and cultural institutions.