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Museum education plays an effective role in understanding continuity as well as gaining historical awareness and empathy. However, it is an important situation that individuals with time problems or disadvantaged groups do not have the chance to physically experience the museum visit. From this point of view, the aim of this study is to determine the level of use of museum-virtual museums by teacher candidates and their thoughts on this subject. In this study, which was carried out with the descriptive survey model, a questionnaire was used as the data collection method. The study group of the research consists of 306 students from Necatibey Faculty of Education. The data obtained in the study were analyzed with the SPSS22 program. Research findings demonstrated that compared to other departments, students in the Social Studies and Turkish Department have more information about museum-virtual museums, they see museum visit as a useful activity that increases permanent learning, and they support the dissemination of museum-virtual museum visits more. In addition, it has been determined that women see museum visits as a beneficial activity for students and support the dissemination of museum visits more than men. Based on the findings, it has been suggested to create opportunities and encourage studies to make more use of museums as an out-of-school learning environment.

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