5.1.3. Criteria for formation

The ecclesiastical museum can adopt its own and permanent role in providing education that could develop in three areas:  historical information, education in aesthetics, and spiritual interpretation.

In order for an ecclesiastical museum to carry out such a task it becomes necessary to educate accurately its personnel. In the education of personnel one should keep in mind some fundamental and necessary features: 

- educate the individual employees to be co-responsibile by inviting them to participate in the cultural plans promoted by the Church;
- educate towards a spirit of initiative by launching new activities and keeping in mind existing experiences;
- educate in an understanding of the area in order to achieve a fitting contextual approach for the initiatives within the range of cultural assets existing in the different particular churches;
- educate in the use of educational technology including multimedia in order to facilitate the visitors' approach to the cultural assets of the Church;
- educate in the pastoral dimension in order to encourage the use of the art-historical patrimony according to an ecclesial mindset and in ways adapted to different kinds of public.