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Principle 5 of the Charter of Educating Cities affirms that \u201cmunicipalities shall undertake to exercise their powers effectively in matters of education.\u00a0 No matter what the scope of these powers may be, they shall put forward a broad and integrated education policy, in order to include all the modalities of formal, non-formal and informal education and the different cultural manifestations, sources of information and paths of discovery of the reality of the city.\u201d<\/p>

Being social learning spaces for knowledge for citizenship, Museums are a key element on the learning strategy of Local Governments.<\/p>

Here below, we offer you good practices of transformation of cemeteries into open spaces of memory, projects of recovery of public space through monumental muralism, initiatives of recovery of intangible memory of a neighborhood.<\/p>

Sao Paulo \u2013 Memory & Life<\/a>
\nGodoy Cruz\u00a0 – Outdoor Museum<\/a>
\nTarragona – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 El Serrallo, a fairy-tale place: fishermen\u2019s stories<\/a><\/p>

Further Information:<\/b>
\nInternational Museum Day<\/a>
\nAgenda 21 for Culture<\/a>
\nUNESCO<\/a>
\nInternational Council of Museums<\/a>
\nEuropean Union Policy on Culture<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":11308,"template":"","edc_news_cat":[800],"edc_news_tag":[],"edc_minisite":[],"class_list":["post-11307","edc_news","type-edc_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edc_news_cat-international-day"],"acf":{"edcities_scope":["global"],"edcities_related_city":[],"edcities_related_network":[],"edcities_related_minisite":false},"yoast_head":"\nInternational Museum Day - Edcities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/edcities.whads.com\/en\/news\/international-museum-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Museum Day - Edcities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Principle 5 of the Charter of Educating Cities affirms that \u201cmunicipalities shall undertake to exercise their powers effectively in matters of education.\u00a0 No matter what the scope of these powers may be, they shall put forward a broad and integrated education policy, in order to include all the modalities of formal, non-formal and informal education […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/edcities.whads.com\/en\/news\/international-museum-day\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Edcities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/educatingcities\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-03T08:58:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.edcities.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/DSC_8325-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1575\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1046\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@EducatingCities\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/edcities.whads.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/international-museum-day\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/edcities.whads.com\\\/en\\\/news\\\/international-museum-day\\\/\",\"name\":\"International Museum Day - 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