Other Publications
2025: “Museum. Learning. Democracy”. By Hadwig Kraeutler.
Hadwig Kraeutler, a colleague and long-standing member of the CECA, organiser of the CECA’s 
international conferences in Vienna in 1996 and 2007, and CECA regional coordinator for Europe, has just published this masterful work on one of our committee’s first members, Alma S. Wittlin. In 386 pages and more than 60 pages of appendices, a bibliography and a list of Alma S. Wittlin’s writings, the author has succeeded in summarising in five richly documented chapters the fascinating life of this writer, museologist, museum mediator, journalist and art historian of Austrian origin, born in Ukraine, who emigrated to England to study for her doctorate at Cambridge and then to the United States.
Her numerous writings on museums and education, including The Museum: Its History and its Tasks in Education, published in 1949 and expanded in 1970, her analysis of the phenomenon of “museum fatigue”, her rich biographies (Isabella of Spain and Sultan Abdul Hamid), on peace and war, emigration, the importance of cultural exchanges and international networks, led Hadwig Kraeutler to organise, with great energy and perseverance, the Alma Wittlin Memorial Lectures at the ICOM General Conferences in tribute to this “intrepid humanist”, concerned with the environment and the intellectual and emotional development essential to a democratic world. A book to be read in small doses, but rich in reflections on many subjects that resonate in these uncertain times we are living in.
Nicole Gesché-Koning
Search for the book on the web with the following words:
Hadwig Kraeutler (2025), Museum. Learning. Democracy. The Work and Life of Alma S. Wittlin (1899-1991), vol. 19, in: Friedrich Stadler (ed.), LIT Verlag, Berlin – Münster – London – Vienna – Zurich.
2020: Open Letter from Brazilian museum educators CECA BR REM-BR_Covid19
The Brazilian Committee for Education and Cultural Action CECA Br, together with the Museum Educator Networks in Brazil (REM-BR), have been carrying out a series of actions to minimize the effect of museum closures on museum education. A letter of recommendation was collectively written to Brazilian museums.
- Carrying out the second round of the survey on museum education actions during the Covid-19 pandemic (results to be published soon).
- Conducting web seminars on topics of interest to museum education (the first can be seen here: https://youtu.be/Ed1zrMJ-UM4)
- Creation of a web repository with references of actions and resources for the development of educational digital museum actions (results will be published soon).
From the Committee CECA LAC- we accompany in a committed way all the actions for the benefit of museum educators, and the maintenance of education as one of the essential activities to promote the social relevance of museums in this complex moment for the Region.
Research for CULT Committee – Education in Cultural Heritage
Abstract
After a résumé of basic definitions this work aims at recommending to the CULT committee how, in order to contribute to sustainable development, cultural heritage and education should be integrated into an inclusive, horizontal and lifelong learning approach. It is highly recommended having cultural heritage at the very core of education and not as a stopgap and seeing education more deeply rooted in cultural heritage through adequate and efficient mutual long-term partnership policies.
Research for CULT Committee – Education in Cultural Heritage
Free download: CULT Committee Education
Education Toolkit
Methods and techniques from museum and heritage education by: Arja van Veldhuizen
As an educator in a museum or other heritage organization, it’s useful to have a toolkit filled with a wide range of methods and good practices that you can draw upon when you need them. This Education Toolkit contains compact descriptions of 18 different techniques. Each method is illustrated with a lively cartoon and includes “do’s & dont’s” and practical examples.
The booklet is also available in French and Dutch [view online]. A Spanish translation is currently prepared and the Georgian version is made, but currently not available online.
French link to toolkit
Dutch link to toolkit
Download: Education_toolkit
ICOM Study series 2 on the CECA
This publication whose edition was made possible thanks to the CECA, is funded by ICOM / Division of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO / Direction des Musées de France.