Museum, heritage, and city: layers of meaning in Paraty

  • Mário Chagas Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
  • Claudia Storino Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional e diretora do Sítio Roberto Burle Marx/Iphan

Abstract

The role of museums in strategies for preservation of historic cities included in the category of heritage is the guiding thread of this text which, on the other hand, recognizes that these cities are themselves and one time, as well as museums, places of memory and forgetting, power and resistance. The museums here are understood as social practices, havens for relationship and storytelling devices that are constructed through spatiality, temporality, images, information, experiences and cohabitation handled simultaneously as goods, representations and cultural events. The study focuses on a museum located in a city-heritage, the Museum of Sacred Art in the city of Paraty. 

Keywords: conservation; museums; heritage; urban heritage

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Author Biographies

Mário Chagas, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)
Claudia Storino, Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional e diretora do Sítio Roberto Burle Marx/Iphan
Published
2014-06-25
How to Cite
Chagas, M., & Storino, C. (2014). Museum, heritage, and city: layers of meaning in Paraty. Cadernos De Sociomuseologia, 47(3). https://doi.org/10.36572/csm.2014.vol.47.04