This teaching guide is the 40th in a series that began more than twenty years ago and in which the Education Department, the Publications Department and the heads of the museum's collections and exhibitions have collaborated. Throughout the series a transformation can be seen, not only in the content, approach or articulation of these guides, but they also reflect the methodological changes in the Education Department of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. An evolution shared by the people who have participated in the programmes, projects and activities, and naturally, by all the professionals who have formed part of this team since its inception at the end of the last century.
This is a publication in which literature, history and art are narrated, but it is also an exercise in creation on the part of those who read it. Throughout, we propose exercises in the creation of texts, perhaps a little more sophisticated than those we propose, in this case orally, in our face-to-face activities in the museum itself, but which in essence seek to give value to the narratives that come from the reader or the museum visitor and, if the latter so wishes, to be able to share them with us and the rest of the readers.
