Políticas da memória na criação dos museus brasileiros

A memória tem sido vinculada à lembrança de um passado original, no entanto, ela pode ser compreendida a partir da reconstrução contínua de significados simbólicos atribuídos a objetos desvinculados de seu contexto de origem. Neste processo de reconstrução, indivíduos, grupos sociais ou mesmo nações disputam significados e procuram generalizá-los. Este artigo investiga o processo de construção da memória nos primeiros museus criados no Brasil, ressaltando a relação entre eles e discursos científicos e nacionalistas.

To think museology today

In the present text we intend to analyse 5 basic documents that translate the Museological Thinking in our century and that, chiefly, have led professionals of the area to apply this “science” in a less hermetic way and to understand its practice. The option to study and analyse the documents results from the fact that they influence present day museological practice and thinking. It is impossible to speak of museology nowadays without referring to one of these documents, not to mention a few nations that have even modified and/or created specific laws for the management of their preservationist cultural policy. Anyway, we are aware that this text intends only to carry out a preliminary approach to the documents, in the sense that the wealth of its content would allow us to slowx over an infinity of issues that they raise. I specifically refer to the documents produced at UNESCO Regional Seminar on the Role of Museums in Education, which took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1958; at the Santiago Round Table in 1972, in Chile; at the 1rst New Museology International Workshop, in Quebec, Canada, 1984; at the Oaxtepec Meeting, in Mexico 1984; and at the Caracas Meeting in 1992. These are documents elaborated within the ICOM –International Council of Museums. These documents are the result of a joint reflection by professionals who seek the evolution of ideas within their areas of action, recognising that in order to do so it is necessary to leave the cocoon of the museological institutions and try to discuss their conceptual advances with professionals of related areas. It is important to be capacitated to reuse these advances in their areas of action. This is the recognition of the importance of interdisciplinarity for the museological context.

Patrimonio-Goberno-Complejidad : gobernar el patrimonio en la complejidad

Hablar de la situación italiana dentro del campo de los eco museos, no es seguramente una cosa simple y esto no es por que Italia sea un país problematico, si no por la naturaleza de la imagen de estos. Los eco museos , de hecho no siguiendo la naturaleza del mismo desarrollo de crecimiento y no respondiendo a un único modo de competición a afrontar, no ofrecen fácilmente un cuadro de síntesis. Teniendo que informar aquí, o sea dar noticias al resguardo de mi país, he escogido de contar algunas sensaciones y reflexiones recogidas de los convenios4 a los cuales recientemente he participado. Inmediatamente, debiendo simplificar, las tres palabras claves que se me han ocurrido son: Patrimonio - Gobierno - Complejidad. Patrimonio porqué hablamos de los eco museos, y sobre todo de el conjunto de bienes materiales e inmateriales que forman nuestra memoria. Gobierno porqué nos referimos a los eco museos como instrumentos para dirigir, guiar, organizar la Complejidad, con la cual aquí, entiendo el conjunto de de varios aspectos que vienen de un territorio y que juntamente lo cualifican.

Guidelines for strategic national planning of training and education for museums, cultural heritage and related fields in Sweden and in international co-operation

The guidelines presented in this document are a preliminary strategy for establishing a comprehensive policy for the needs of training and education wiyhin the sector and adjoining areas, across fields of knowledge and professions concerned, on relevant levels and for the varies institutions and operators. The objective of these guidelines is to analysis the problems, objectives and goals for development of a far reaching system of educational and training programs and courses for museums, cultural heritage and related fields of activities. This objective comprises a close collaboration between museum, cultural heritage organizations and educating organizations, notably within universities and colleges, but also other kinds of educating bodies.