The project "Planting History" is sponsored by 'Comunidade Solidária' in partnership with 'Associação Beneficente São Martinho' the Museum promoted, from July to December 1999, the course "Planting History : Initiation to Gardening" for youngsters from 15 to 18 years interested in learning a service that is well accepted in the market, beginning by practicing in the Museum's gardens.

Sponsored by 'Comunidade Solidária' in partnership with the Museum of the Republic and 'Cruzada do Menor', the Museum promoted from July to December 1998, the course "Wicker Work in Furniture - History and Conservation - Profession wicker worker", for youngsters from 15 to 18 years, interested in learning an office widely accepted in the market, since the old artisans are retired or dead, leaving no followers. The course includes learning to work with straw, notions of conservation and the history of furniture in Brazil, and giving the opportunity for the young apprentice to learn by practicing in seat chairs belonging to cultural institutions in need of repairs, the National Historical Museum included. Several of these boys and girls are already making a living on what they have learned.

The National Historical Museum is participating with 4 young guides of the proejct "Boys of Rio" promoted by the State Government through the CEI - Centro de Educação Integral (Integral Educational Center), with the support of UNICEF and Rio-Sul Airlines. The object is to prepare young boys and girls as guides prepared to transmit information to visitors in museums and monuments in the citiy. There is no charge for this service, and each guide works four hours a day and receives a monthly salary given by Rio-Sul Airlines.

The Museum receives weekly, minors living on the streets aged 7 to 17 , that are being socialized by the Associação Beneficente São Martinho, and by means of leisure activities, exhibition of videos, visits to exhibitions, sandwiches and refreshments, and distributing gifts, they have access to another reality, helping them to gain new values in life.

The Museum houses the course given by the Associação Beneficente São Martinho, that prepares youngsters to enter in the market as office-boys, and other office works. To become part of this program the minor must be attending school, and after a period of experience and a strict evaluation, he is directed to important companies, such as Light and Eletrobrás, and may find regular jobs.

In partnership with the 'Cruzada do Menor', the Museum offers specialized courses, as gardening, wicker work or recicling of paper, attended by the less fortunate.

The special program organized by the Museum for senior citizens is transforming the place into a pleasant meeting place for confraternity.

Conversations, participation in exhibitions and events democratize the Museum: training for street-sweepers of Comlurb ( the Urban Cleaning Company), exhibition with legends in Braille for the blind, lectures given by veterans of the Brazilian Air Force to children etc.