The objective of this study is to understand the relationship between the children s education audience and the museums, trying to comprehend which aspects enable and/or hamper this encounter. Historically, the concept and the look on childhood have been changing and directly influencing public policies aimed at attending to the peculiarities presented at this stage of life. Perceive children as citizens, social and historical subjects, producers of culture is a condition for it to act in favour of its growth and constitution. Understanding that experiences with diverse cultural expressions lead the child to interact and take ownership of the world by building meanings and establishing numerous relationships, museums - places that hold different cultural knowledge produced by humanity - are spaces that can contribute to their formation. Investigating the theme implies being attentive to this relationship in its entirety, considering the different agents involved in it: children, teachers and museum educators. Therefore, qualitative research was prioritised, with the accomplishment of field research in museums of different typologies, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The online questionnaire, observation, interview and documentary analysis were used as methodological tools to carry out the study. The reflection on human formation, based on experiences in the midst of culture and cultural, artistic and aesthetic manifestations, was based on the theoretical perspectives of Benjamin, Dewey and Vygotsky. Authors from the area of Aesthetics, Education, Childhood and Museology also contributed to the theoretical construct of the research. The results pointed out that, to provide aesthetic experiences for children s audiences in museums, it has been necessary to face some theoretical, financial and structural obstacles. Also, there are still few studies dedicated to studying the subject. It is concluded that the aesthetic experience in the museum area is the interaction with the manifestations, records and celebration of the different ways of living and being in the world. In this way, museums can be understood as a means, experimental and creative, useful to promote aesthetic experiences to children from the interaction with material culture. It is necessary to broaden the relationship between museum, school and university to bridge the gap between the theory of studies on childhood and educational practices with children in cultural spaces.