Department of Education and Public Programs
The Department of Education and Public Programs is responsible for developing content and methodologies that form the basis of a program agenda designed to foster open, sensitive, creative, and critical audiences. This agenda is based on an understanding of the exhibitions and encompasses central themes of discussion surrounding the humanities, science, and art in contemporary society. These programs include visits, discourse, training (Museum School), community outreach, music and sound, and film.
Discursive Program
The Museum’s discursive program promotes the social appropriation of knowledge around questions about the present. Following each exhibition cycle, the Museum develops conversations, lectures, and transdisciplinary series, inviting academics, artists, and experts to share their research. These discursive events, within the framework of art exhibitions, allow for the exploration of diverse topics ranging from science to philosophy and spirituality.
Visits Program
The MAMM Visits Program is an educational platform that enriches the museum’s visitors’ experience through guided tours that deepen and expand upon the exhibition content and promote historical, social, and subjective reflections, enhancing their enjoyment of art.
The largest group participating in the Visits Program is schoolchildren from the city, followed by university students and adults. Recognizing the diversity of ages and backgrounds of our visitors, we have structured our Visits Program into three categories to address the needs of each group and facilitate, through educational tools, their engagement with our various exhibitions and their enjoyment of the artistic and cultural practices at the museum. Our visit categories are:
Workshop-Visits and Film-Visits: activities to explore the museum led by MAMM guides. Primarily aimed at school groups and companies.
Specialized Visits / In-Gallery Tours: specialized tours led by artists, researchers, and curators. Aimed primarily at the general public and experts.
Guided Tours: Tours of the Museum led by MAMM staff. Aimed at the general public.
Museum School: Training Program
The Museum School is a program that brings together the MAMM’s educational offerings for diverse audiences in the city. The program aims to contribute to the development of Medellín’s public awareness through learning spaces that prioritize theoretical reflection, experimentation, and artistic creation. Depending on the target audience and methodology, these spaces may include: introductory and appreciation courses, advanced and participatory courses, creative workshops, and labs with artists.
Film Program
The MAMM’s film program focuses on the research and exhibition of cinematic material that showcases the quality and diversity of contemporary film production. The programming includes feature films, documentaries, short films, premieres, and previews; it also involves various artists and directors of visual arts who curate film series or participate through talks. Contemporary Colombian cinema occupies an important part of the programming, which includes a regular series of contemporary Colombian films.
Music and Sound Program
As part of its programming, the Museum offers concerts for diverse audiences, showcasing the range and scope of contemporary musical expressions and music as an expression of current thought.
Since the 1980s, the MAMM has had a particular interest in music, an expression that has held a significant place in its programming. In the last decade, the Museum has focused on promoting local and international projects, with a particular interest in the discursive, daring, and experimental value of the proposals, the use of new creative tools, and the construction of authentic narrative universes that allow music to interact with other arts and disciplines.