Museum Links Open House 2025: Reimagining Sustainable, Museum-Based Learning Beyond the Classroom
The National Discovery Museum Institute (NDMI) proudly continues its flagship initiative, “Museum Links: Bridging Gaps in History Learning,” by hosting the Museum Links Open House 2025—a national platform for dialogue between policymakers, educators, and museum professionals to collaboratively advance sustainable out-of-classroom learning systems.
Building on the success of a pilot project co-developed with six Bangkok-based schools—Suksanaree School, Suankularb Wittayalai School, Wat Chakkrawat Chongkonnee School, Wat Phaurorhit School, Suan Kularb Palace School, and Thammasat University Demonstration School -the program integrates historical thinking skills with local heritage resources, museums, and active learning methods.
Through engaging, inquiry-based activities, over 40 upper primary students became “young history detectives,” exploring historical districts along the Chao Phraya River and Bang Phlat area. Key activities included: Community walk-throughs with maps and oral histories from local wisdom keepers, Aerial photo comparisons across three historical periods to spark understanding of urban change, and Hands-on clay modeling workshops where students imagined and presented visions of their future communities—20 years from now—under the theme "Our Neighborhood After the Bridge Opens."
The Open House event, scheduled for Friday, August 22, 2025, at Museum Siam, will feature four key sessions to inspire a nationwide shift toward museum-based learning:
🔹 Keynote Address – "Museums and Their Role in Promoting Lifelong Learning"
🔹 Policy Dialogue – "Out-of-Classroom Learning: Trends and Transformations"
🔹 Teacher Reflections – Experience-sharing from educators of the six pilot schools
🔹 Open Forum – "How Can We Strengthen Out-of-Classroom Learning Systems?"
The goal: to promote collaboration between museums, schools, and communities as dynamic learning ecosystems that foster 21st-century competencies through learner-centered approaches.
Beyond the event, NDMI is making learning materials—worksheets, lesson plans, and multimedia resources—freely available via the Museum Links Digital Library, supporting educators, students, and museum professionals in adapting these tools to diverse learning contexts.
Ultimately, Museum Links Open House 2025 aspires to expand public understanding of the vital role museums play in lifelong learning and community development. It aims to position museums not only as repositories of the past but as active partners in shaping the future of education—creative, inclusive, and rooted in historical consciousness.
For more information:
Communication & Marketing Department, Museum Siam
📞 02 225 2777 ext. 518
