This thesis aims to discuss the access pattern of the students of the Municipal Education Network of the city of Rio de Janeiro (SME/RJ) to the cultural facilities partners of the city hall in the Project School and Museum. In general, cultural promotion takes place through the dialogue of schools with institutions directly linked to culture such as museums, cultural centers, libraries, theaters and planetariums. However, in times of teacher accountability based on indexes constructed from the results of large-scale evaluations, is there any possibility for cultural formation in non-formal education spaces? This objective is deployed on issues that guide this research: How do schools take ownership of cultural facilities, especially from SME / RJ partner museums? Does the school value dialogue with non-formal education spaces? What experiences are network students having with the cultural equipment? In order to carry out the study, the following methodological strategies were adopted: i) observation of the activities carried out with elementary school students in seven museums and cultural centers partners of the Municipal Department of Education (SME / RJ) in the School and Museum Project; ii) interviews with the coordinator of the School and Museum Project and with the participating teachers. The research deals with the contributions of the Studies on Assessment and Performance and Studies on Culture and Cultural Formation, fields that allowed to investigate the relations among academic formation and cultural formation in the scope of public educational policies. The research problematizes the question of cultural formation based on authors such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and John Dewey. The hypothesis that generated the research was that the students access to cultural equipment through the School and Museum Project can contribute to the expansion of cultural formation, in a dimension of critical experience that provides the development of aesthetic emotion and the insertion of the student in society through the cultural perspective. From the analyzes, the conclusions were: (i) in the context of teacher accountability, the School and Museum Project is an example of good use of the results of external evaluations, as participating schools are selected based on criteria like if they are in areas of conflict in the city and have poor performance. Therefore, through this project, one can perceive a strategy of trying to promote equity in the network; (ii) the School and Museum Project fulfills its objectives by: promoting the access of teachers and students to museums, centers, institutes of art and culture, as an articulated activity to the development of the Curriculum; stimulate the appreciation of the city s cultural heritage; forming a visiting public for institutions and cultural spaces resulting from the development of the interest of students and teachers in the appropriation of cultural goods; enable students to deepen and diversify the ways of learning the contents of the different areas of knowledge, provided in visits to cultural institutions; (iii) the Project also presents aspects that need to be improved, for example: restricted attendance of the 8th grade students; reduced number of participating schools; concentration of cultural facilities in the south and center of the city and problems related to displacement.