17 articles in this issue
Paula Assunção dos Santos
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Pedro Cardoso
Half a century, from 1947 to 2010, is enough for us to take stock of the impact of the “ideology of Development” on Heritage. An ideology induced by UNESCO and by ICOM. What has changed and what is still in an impasse? What effects has this ideology had o... see more
Teresa Morales Lersch, Ocampo Cuauhtémoc Camarena
This paper discusses two key elements in the field of museums: a summary of the concept of the community museum, on the one hand, and, on the other, a proposal as to how this concept is put into practice, especially in the early stages of the creation of ... see more
Mário Chagas
From modernity to the contemporary world, museums have been acknowledged for their power to produce metamorphoses of meanings and functions, for their ability to adapt historic and social determination, and for their calling for cultural mediation. They d... see more
Ana Mercedes Stoffel Fernandes
“Musealising hope” reflects on the trials and tribulations of an installation designed as a tribute to the struggle for survival of African peoples who dare make the long trek to Europe by sea. Its accomplishment involved a number of players whose conduct... see more
Maria Ignez Mantovani Franco
The City is a tomography of the present, indicating to the future, strata of past times. Nowadays city growth averages one million people every week; while back in 1950 there were eighty six cities with more than one million inhabitants, today they ... see more
Isabel Victor
The work on Social Memory, focused on the biographic method and the paths of immaterial Heritage, are the fabric that we have chosen to substantiate the idea of museum. The social dimensions of memory, its construction and representation, are the thi... see more
This paper proposes a look at museums from the perspective of sociomuseology, an area of research and practice under development in countries such as Portugal, Brazil and Spain. Sociomuseology was born from the Latin new museology tradition and is closely... see more
Oscar Navaja
The present document intends to analyze the different ecomuseums visited and studied in Japan trying to describe the reality of Japanese ecomuseology. From the descriptions of Japanese ecomuseums extrapolate the main features to build a model that is a po... see more
Angelina Tsitoura
The ideas on which this paper is based are drawn from my thesis “Interactivity in Museums. A Relationship Building Perspective” written in 2007 for the fulfillment of the Master Degree in Museology at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam. The main arguments... see more
Mário Chagas, Eneida Braga, Marcelle Pereira, Claudia Rose, Ines Gouveia, Wélcio de Toledo
Considering the principles of the National Museum Policy, created in 2003, the Brazilian Museums Institute – Ibram supports and encourages the development of museum practices and processes aimed at rewriting the history of social groups which were deprive... see more
This paper intends to analyze the evolution of the Ecomuseums from their early appearance in the seventies until the present, emphasizing the characteristics which make them unique and different from all the other museums. This analysis will be used... see more
Antônio Carlos Pinto Vieira, Claudia Rose Ribeiro da Silva, Luis Antonio Oliveira
The Maré Museum, founded on 8 May 2006, arose from the desire of the inhabitants of the community to have a place of memory, a place that is immersed in the past and looks to the future, a place that reflects on this community, on their conditions a... see more
Bonita Bennett
Using this metaphoric framework as a starting point, I would like to focus on the characteristics of the District Six Museum which extend its work beyond being that of representation (of traumatic memory). Representation signifies in some ways distance an... see more
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