When culture fights educational poverty, enhancing museum experience

The whole world is currently facing many challenges, including new forms of poverty, discrimination, marginalization, to name just a few. To address these challenges, we propose to experiment innovative educational approaches, improving complex strategies to face an intricate, interconnected and changing phenomenon such as educational poverty. This paper is inspired by the aim of approaching the educational needs of the most fragile children and families through cultural proposals, able to give opportunities for growing up and regain dignity. Through a multidisciplinary approach, which aims to offer a key to face this complex world, the methodological proposal is to make cultural experiences evolve from a passive acquisition process to a participatory learning. In a scenario of complexity, we need new, more interconnected, strategies. In this sense, we present an experience of contamination for responding to specific social problems through cultural education. From an educational point of view, it is essential to ask how museum experiences can, and should, be directed towards tackling the educational needs of children and parents, especially the most vulnerable ones.