Desire for memory, desire for museums: the experience of the Memory Hotspots

  • Mário Chagas Director of the Department of Museum Processes of the Brazilian Museums Institute (Depmus/Ibram).
  • Eneida Braga Director of the Department of Museum Dissemination, Development and Economy of the Brazilian Museums Institute (Ibram)
  • Marcelle Pereira Coordinator of Social Museology and Education of the Department of Museum Processes of the Brazilian Museums Institute (Comuse/Depmus/Ibram).
  • Claudia Rose Museology and Education Division, Brazilian Museums Institute (Comuse/Depmus/Ibram).
  • Ines Gouveia Museology and Education Division, Brazilian Museums Institute (Comuse/Depmus/Ibram).
  • Wélcio de Toledo Consultant in the Memory Hotspots Programme

Abstract

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 deprived of the right to narrate and exhibit their memories and their heritage. As effective action, in 2008, the Department of Museums and Cultural Centres (Demu/Iphan) – which gave rise to Ibram in January 2009 – started the Memory Hotspots Programme, with the main goal of fostering wide popular participation in matters related to social memory and museums.

The Memory Hotspots Programme was inspired in and directly influenced by the Ministry of Culture/MinC, which created the National Programme for Culture, Education and Citizenship (Living Culture). The purpose of this Programme is to contribute to make society conquer spaces, exchange experiences and develop initiatives that foster culture and citizenship, in a proactive manner. The partnership struck between civil society and the state power gave rise to Culture Hotspots, inspired in the anthropological “do-in” concept, idealized by the then Minster Gilberto Gil. 

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Chagas, M., Braga, E., Pereira, M., Rose, C., Gouveia, I., & de Toledo, W. (1). Desire for memory, desire for museums: the experience of the Memory Hotspots. Cadernos De Sociomuseologia, 38(38). Retrieved from https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/1655