In an event in which the president of El Museo Canario, Diego López Díaz, and the director of the Disa Foundation, Sara Mateos Artiles, spoke, both institutions formalized the renewal of the collaboration agreement by which the educational project "Guides for a Day" is carried out. This project of The Canary Museum already had the participation of the Disa Foundation during the last academic year, and the new agreement guarantees its continuity for the 2019-2020 academic year.
The project "Guides for a Day" is mainly aimed at ESO and Baccalaureate students and offers students a different way to get to know The Canary Museum and approach the indigenous past of Gran Canaria, a topic that addresses the permanent exhibition. The proposal focuses on the students taking on the challenge of making "museum guides" for other peers, either from the same centre or a different one, and preferably from different educational levels than their own. ESO or Primary groups are therefore indirect beneficiaries of the proposal.
The project seeks to combine several principles, including highlighting the value of heritage as a teaching resource in the training of schoolchildren of different educational stages, or the important role of museums, and especially of the Canary Museum, as spaces for the integral development of students. The proposal not only contributes to supporting the content established in the school curriculum, but also aims to encourage the personal and social development of students, favoring them to understand other cultures and ways of life, as well as to promote critical thinking, creativity and communication skills.