Visitors are highly interested in expeditions, i. e. wandering around different museums.  The public finds the What Use Is a Museum program attractive. Through a play, the program describes the establishment of the Bratislava City Museum (1868), recounts what used to be there before the MMB, What is the story of the MMB and presents one of its present forms – What is the MMB’s Studio. It also introduces those behind the museum – its employees and their workplaces. Visitors discover, Thanks to individual professions, Museum’s visitors can get an unadulterated experience from looking at real people who work with original collection items.

Another objective of the Studio’s program content is to compare, together with the visitors, today’s real life with life in the past. Programs encourage inventiveness, skills and ways to transform the acquired knowledge into different kinds of art. The Studio’s aim is to develop types of programs focusing on differences between generations regarding the perception of Bratislava’s history; to increase the interest in cultural heritage and history among the youngest generation by means of a newly created space and to form an overview of all the theme museums of the MMB, as well as of selected collection items displayed in different museums (11 in total). The Studio’s offer is extended to include special programs for groups from primary schools to secondary schools in form of non-formal education programs.
 

The Studio’s purpose and work with family community

The Museum Has a Future Studio with the All About the Museum concept brings different generations together. It is visited by children with their parents, and their grandparents as well. The interest of adults coming to the Studio keeps increasing. First confrontations between generations have already appeared. And since children are our future, they are also the future of museums. The effort of the Museum to enhance the cultural awareness of their visitors will be reflected in their relation to the cultural and historical heritage, to creating personal memory of a place, to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, but also in their opinion of their own human nature.