Based on museography, we explore the representations of childhood present in two museums. We ask ourselves about the representations built around childhood and heritage with which these institutions elaborate their museographic designs and how these representations are materialized in their museography and contents. We used a qualitative approach and an exploratory design, which we applied to the Museo Histórico Nacional de Santiago and the Museo Artequin Viña del Mar. The results show that the differences in origin and focus determine the way in which childhood is represented, so that in one museum the spatial, experiential and interactive vision stands out, and in the other one the observation and passive contemplation. In both museums the discussion on childhood is important.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.47725/RAV.031.05