Abstract:

Year of 2020 challenges all traditional methods of teaching and learning. COVID-19, locking down students indoors, changes the entire learning environment for millions pupils. Teachers and instructors have to react quickly and invent new ways to deliver knowledge through technology. If the situation could be applicable for school curricula due to their formal structure, museums face the most complicated issues. The problems rooted inside of the museum's activities nature: to perceive collections, the audience has to present in the museum environment. Recent challenges forced museums to create new programs and activities compatible with the distant learning as well as social distance activities. The paper considers efficient methods museums in the USA invented to support the learning process and help schools to provide efficient and engaging learning processes. Examples the paper provides demonstrate different approaches American museums developed to use socio-cultural landscape as an efficient educational resource: collaborative projects, historic scavenger hunt, online art studios, etc.

Keywords:

Museum education, art education, distant learning, collaborative projects, socio-cultural landscape.