Museum to Open Skies: Tombstone Art and Education

Abstract

We realized different ways societies express the feeling about death, but always keeping the idea of preserving the memory of the dead by the image in an attempt to keep alive their identities. Thus the tomb constructions inside the public and private cemeteries shows this concern to preserve the memory through works of renowned artists, tombs of important personalities, texts and other traces that tell the story of the people buried there, making the space a museum the open sky. So this study aims to show how the cemetery can become a interdisciplinary tool in teaching Arts and Humanities through works of art and symbols expressed on tombstones.