Homes of 21st Century Education are places where you and your children – through culture, the arts and play – can learn how to create positive change for the future.
Distinguished Homes
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Den Haag, The NetherlandsThe Museum of Literature/Children’s Book Museum -
Vienna, AustriaZOOM Children’s Museum (ZOOM Kindermuseum) -
Milan, ItalyMuba – Children’s Museum Milan (Museo dei Bambini Milano) -
Rotterdam, The NetherlandsWorld Museum Rotterdam (Wereldmuseum Rotterdam) -
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsWereldmuseum Junior -
Verona, ItalyChildren´s Museum Verona (CMV)
Places to learn for the future
The world is changing quickly, and children growing up today will have to co-create a more sustainable society for tomorrow. For this they will need to develop new skills our school system hasn’t always been focusing on.
Homes of 21st Century Education are places where you and your children – through culture, the arts and play – can learn how to create positive change for the future.
But how can you know if this is a place worth going to?
There are eight criteria we evaluate that make the difference:
Your Door to the Culture!
Easily accessible public place of joy, beauty and imagination!
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We are Cultural Gateways
We are locally relevant, easily accessible and comprehensive to all. We are public spaces for well-being and enjoyment, heritage, aesthetics, and imagination. We serve as entrance institutions into cultural life.
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Learn by Play!
Home of interactive self-learning: trying out the unknown, curiosity and imagination.
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We are educational labs
We are incubators of contemporary education—continuously creating and improving hands-on, mind-on, heart-on learning experiences. We research, develop and test innovative educational practices. We offer play-based, interdisciplinary, multi-perspective and interactive learning experiences where imagination, creativity, curiosity, and exploring the unknown are at home.
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For all Senses!
Developing your children’s talents holistically as a meaningful experience.
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We provide holistic education
We invite children to holistically develop their talents and skills in the form of meaningful experience grounded in Hands On! Mind On! Heart On! principles
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Better World!
Children as equal part of the society, imagining and changing the world into a better place.
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We foster education for humanity
We empower our visitors to build healthy relationships between individuals, community, and society and encourage children to become co-creators of and change-agents in society.
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Bridging the Gaps
For all ages, bridging the gaps between generations.
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We are intergenerational with children in the centre
We serve as meeting places to bridge the gaps between generations, and foster intergenerational dialogue and learning.
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Be heard!
Place to interact, engage: whoever you are every voice can be heard.
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We apply a polyphonic, paricipatory and inclusive approach
We are responsive, audience-focused institutions, where interactivity is at the heat of every visitor’s experience.
Social and cultural diversity is reflected in all our ‘P’s: in our people, program, products, promotion, place, parners, process and prices.
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Digitally Aware & Active
Navigating between reality and virtuality, for children and the older ones.
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We are digitally aware and active
We embrace digital technology and help children to navigate through different realities and virtualities.
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Constantly Changing
Connecting to the global themes, but acting locally and continuously adapting.
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We are dynamic and evolving organisations
Constantly adapting and responding to the changing
needs of local communities, in connection with recent global and
local developments.
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