Educate about environmental and cultural sustainability through prehistoric collection. The case of the Museum of Paleontology and Prehistory “Piero Leonardi” of the University of Ferrara, Italy

The collections kept in the Naturalistic Museums have much to tell about their past and to teach about the future, especially the prehistoric collections that through a journey in human evolution show a surprising connection to our present and what will be our future. The question that the Prehistoric Museum has to ask to themself is: how to educate and teach prehistory in the best way to understand the importance of this discipline and collection to their public? Nowadays, museums are facing multiple tools and strategies to communicate their collections in innovative and engaging ways by making the visitor an active part of the educational process. Succeeding in this objective means creating communication paths that stimulate the user's critical thinking and curiosity also by taking advantage of digital tools that are more easily able to engage new generations as well as valid tools for wider accessibility of museum collections.