Contextual model of learning in science museums – learning mathematics in Ponto UFMG Itinerant Museum

Science museums have consolidated themselves as informal places of Science communication. Owing to its social role and its commitment with scientific knowledge, it is necessary to understand the strategies those museums, especially Ponto UFMG Itinerant Museum, use, aiming to reach the learning process mediated by scientific and cultural artifacts that compose the museum exhibit.