This thesis has a reflection field the work of education developed with the community, in the 1990s, in the Museu Vivo da Memória Candanga (MVMC), for its pioneering and innovative practice through cultural heritage. It brings in its history the occupation of the Federal District at the beginning of the Brasilia construction, the several towns that were built, and the withdrawal of the population from some areas until de closure of the Juscelino Kubistchek de Oliveira and the creation of the Museu Vivo da Memória Candanga. It exposes the educational structure thought out, proposed and put into practice in the MVMC, presenting, previously, other practices of education in museums that are the interest of this research, as it is the Projeto Interação casa, in the 1980's decade. It discusses the issue of formal, informal and non-formal education and its performance within a memory space, including the museum to educate cities, a new education proposal outside the formal classroom space, which dialogues with the whole community and, naturally with the museum, a member of this city. The research ends with an education proposal for the Museum of Education of the Federal District, which interacts with the community that receives it.