The Museum Education Team of the Petőfi Literary Museum (PIM) strives to create an inspiring learning environment for the widest possible range of visitors. Our main goal is to ensure that even groups from less privileged backgrounds feel at home in the museum.
Being a literary museum, language is at the core of PIM's identity. However, for children from disadvantaged backgrounds who face language barriers, texts often result in experiences of failure, cause anxiety, and trigger reactions of avoidance or opposition. Therefore, it is important to build bridges that help these target groups engage with the museum’s content. The two main strategies for achieving this goal are to address visitors' negative feelings towards texts and to make the museum's content more understandable and accessible.
Our project, Küszöb (Threshold), is implemented in collaboration with schools educating disadvantaged children, involving various experts such as child psychologists, schoolteachers, and special needs educators. It aims to bring the museum closer to the world of students with language disadvantages. In our tailor-made lessons, both in the classroom and the museum setting, we build on a variety of skills to enhance student engagement.