The museum as a space for exploring gender and power relations

This paper presents the results of a research project that seeks to understand the didactic potential of museums to offer young people creative and attractive ways of understanding gender-related concepts through art and heritage. To this end, a workshop was designed to be implemented simultaneously in one museum in the country in each of the participating institutions. For the analysis of the results, a mixed research methodology was applied: a pre-test and post-test questionnaire was used to carry out a descriptive-comparative analysis, followed by the application of qualitative techniques of multimodal discourse analysis. The results show that the young participants in the workshops have acquired the necessary skills to detect the gender biases that are present in history and cultural memory.