VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages

Abstract

This paper is written in the context of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic. As we know, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented and devastating impact on almost everyone’s life in all aspects, and many published papers indicate that it seems to have a severe impact on the mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents. Meanwhile, many researchers have shared their work and the findings convey museums have made and continue to make enormous contributions in supporting people’s mental health and wellbeing. This made me, a museum researcher and a visual art educator, rethink the purpose of museum education and how to use museum materials to help people, particularly family groups, with mental health in the post-pandemic future. Consequently, I created a series of family learning activities based on the artifacts in several museums around the world. The project gets well reviewed by almost all participants, and it shows that museum activities not only provide accessible education, but also bring benefits to health and wellbeing for family visitors. However, this project attempts to construct an interdisciplinary curriculum for children and their family members, expecting to find a new path to raise the life awareness of children and a new perspective to family education.