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María Raquel Vázquez-Ramil
Universidad de Valladolid
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8686-8289
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Ángel Serafín Porto Ucha
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-830X
No 33 (2023): Educational innovation in art, science and society, Articles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ie.33.9196
Submitted: 08-05-2023 Accepted: 18-09-2023 Published: 02-10-2023
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Abstract

The desire to create pedagogical and school museums is evident in Spain and America since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the great national pedagogical museums open their doors; the Spanish National Pedagogical Museum was born in 1882, with a strong bias of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza and did a remarkable job until the Spanish civil war.


But teachers and schools needed museums close to them. Educational legislation recommended repeatedly the opening of pedagogical museums in teacher’s training schools, although these institutions could not always be founded and, above all, maintained. One example is the pedagogical museum of the Teacher’s Training School of Santiago de Compostela, promoted by the headmaster, Casto Blanco Cabeza, in 1903. We analyze the life and formative trajectory of Blanco Cabeza, teacher in primary schools and in the Teacher’s Training School of Santiago and Madrid, and Public Instruction Counselor in the 1920s, to contextualize this project. Finally, we offer data on other initiatives, such as the Regional Pedagogical Museum of Corunna and its ups and downs.