The Exhibition as a Substrate for Environmental Education in a Natural History Museum

Abstract: This article discusses the presentation of the environment and its problems in Natural History museum exhibitions, as well as the presentation of the environment and environmental problems in the particular case of the exhibition of Museu Oceanográfico Univali, of Balneário de Piçarras, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, as a substrate for the development of visitors' environmental education. For this purpose, a study was developed within the framework of the qualitative-interpretative paradigm. As a result, it was possible to identify the exhibition as an environmental education action of a conservationist nature within the framework of a behaviourist approach.