education and participation
Embrace, dialogue, connect, transform
Education and Participation is a cultural mediation program of the Museu Judaico de São Paulo (MUJ). We educate when the program produces experiences, which then allow visitors to build knowledge from dialogue, exchange and debate. Participation speaks to our commitment to inviting different publics to become involved, to become part of the Museum and help in its collective construction.
Based on critical pedagogy, which stimulates creation, collaboration, investigation, autonomy and experience, we develop educational activities to mediate the exhibitions on display, heritage and the territory with the publics. Our objective is to contribute to the building of knowledge on culture, traditions, values, customs and history of the Jewish people and their integration in Brazilian culture, in dialogue and in parallel with other of groups of belonging.
We understand the word ‘public’ in the plural: publics. This means that we recognize and respect differences. Each one of us has a history, a repertoire and specific interests. Based on these similarities and differences, we create programming to make everyone feel welcomed. Students, professors, families, researchers, artists, people with disabilities, identity groups, NGOs and residents from the surrounding neighborhood are our publics.
Based on this programming, the Museum reaffirms its commitment to education as a path for social transformation and integration.
Mediated visits, scheduled in advance and on-demand, activity workshops, storytelling, reading mediation, meetings with teachers, courses and lectures are part of the fixed programming of the Museum. Dialoguing with contemporary cultural expressions, we also have a digital arm, with the production of 2D animated series, free video visits and streaming podcasts, which brings the Museum to people’s homes.

Based on this programming, the Museum reaffirms its commitment to education as a path fo social transformation and integration. With it, we expect to contribute to the democratization of access to cultural goods, collaborate with the Museum education of publics from childhood into adult life and aid in the continuous training of educational and cultural professionals.
The Education and Participation activities of the Museu Judaico de São Paulo are made possible with resources provided by the Federal Law for Cultural Incentive – Law no. 8.313/1991. It is based on an original project proposed by Sapoti Projetos Culturais, in co-creation with the Museu Judaico de São Paulo. In its first year, 2021, the project was sponsored by Grupo CCR.
PROGRAMAÇÃO FIXA
MEDIATED VISIT
Tuesday to Friday at 11 AM, 2 PM and 4 PM. Saturdays and Sundays at 3 PM. (scheduled in advance – submission of form required)
Educators-mediators conduct visits to the exhibitions on display in the Museum (consult our programming).
MEDIATED VISIT IN BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 11 AM, 2 PM and 4 PM. * (scheduled in advance – submission of form required)
Visits in Brazilian Sign Language – sign language for exhibitions on display in the Museum (consult our programming).
THEATRICAL VISIT
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 3 PM.
Saturdays at 2 PM (session with Brazilian Sign Language).
What about taking a trip through time? Educators-actors portraying immigrants carry bags full of memories on a course through the Museum.
STORYTELLING
Tuesdays at 1 PM and Thursdays at 3 PM.
Saturdays at 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM (session with Brazilian Sign Language).
Sundays: 10:30 AM and 2 PM.
Using dolls, props and music, the educators present stories from Jewish tradition, popular culture and universal literature that dialogue with the concepts of the Museum.
LIVING BOOKS
Wednesdays at 1 PM and 5 PM. Saturdays and Sundays at 4 PM (on Saturdays, session with Brazilian Sign Language).
The first voyages that we take through the pages of a book are accompanied by an experienced reader. This activity proposes a shared reading of books that dialogue with the themes of the exhibitions on display.
Questions: agendamento@museujudaicosp.org.br or by phone at (11) 2075-3207 (telephone service available Tuesdays from 1 PM to 3 PM and Wednesdays from 10 AM to noon).
Team
Renata Simon
Daniela Chindler
Linda Derviche Blaj
Vinícius Zavalis
Alexandre Diniz
Dalia Schneider
Dinah Feldman
Leonardo Moreira
Denise Magalhães