Museum Education

In the Centre of Excellence for Museum Education, the eight research museums of the Leibniz Association have joined forces with four educational research institutions from the Leibniz Education Research Network Potentials and the Technical University of Munich with the aim of jointly advancing visitor research and empirical educational research on museums as informal places of learning. The focus is on linking theory and practice: through close cooperation, research findings can be directly implemented in educational practice in museums, evaluated there, and the results in turn influence research. We aim to address overarching research questions as well as to integrate different disciplines in the development of central questions in visitor research. 

The Centre of Excellence for Museum Education aims to develop and establish common research approaches and thus contribute to a higher standardisation and comparability of visitor research in Germany in the long run. In doing so, the Centre also acts as a national contact point for visitor research in museums and specifically promotes the exchange between stakeholders.