Abstract
This article examines remaining, appropriations and changes relating to the practices and representations that preceded the founding of the Pedagogical Museum of France in the nineteenth century. It uses the educational museum category to define didactic materials, spaces and institutions strictly linked to education as a particular museum typology and it inserts the emergence of these museums in an international movement for education progress. This approach dialogues with studies on the history of heritage and museums, considering the uniqueness of these museums in relation to current heritage processes of the past cultural heritage conservation. Exhibition, collection and school museum notions were produced and put into circulation by the agents involved in the process, so that the perspective of development and preservation of the past traces remainded in the background.
Keywords:
Pedagogical Museum of France; educational museums; school museum, collection; exhibition