Museu do Homem do Nordeste : a narrativa expográfica de uma região (1979 – 2002)

Abstract

Created on July 21, 1979 the Museum of the Northeast Man is one of the most important museum institutions of the State of Pernambuco and in the 1980s was one of the main national reference in the field of museology, above all, for his performance in the Northeast as agent hand trainer of skilled labor to work in the field of museums, culture and heritage. Such an institution prints since its inception a solid conception of representations of the Northeast region of Brazil, mainly from the theoretical paradigm of its founder sociologist Gilberto Freyre. Thus, the Northeast Man Museum held throughout his career curatorial experiences presented in their long-term exposures, so that such museological narrative gathered over the years general aspects of the institution and its professionals believed to represent the identity and the man of the culture of the Northeast and its ecosystem. However, with the emergence of new citizenships, ethnic groups, realities and discursive empowerment of various social groups, such as blacks, poor, indigenous and women are placed under discussion that identities are constructed from the exhibition of traditional institutions, such as MUHNE . This movement begins to challenge the power of speech or representation of museums as memory agents. At the center of these debates our wishes were not only bring the institutional trajectory of Northeastern Man Museum, but problematize the museological narrative produced by the institution throughout his career. In this sense, produced statements arise, the production area of speeches - the social position-and its agents - the authors - in the sense that we should also reflect on the museum experts, this group of subjects who developed the museum discourse MUHNE . Thus, in the wake of cultural history, this work, which ends in a border camp in which theoretical and methodological aspects of historiographical theory and museological science meet, seeks to understand that discourse and Northeast representations were predominantly built by long-term exhibitions in the Museum of the Northeast Man, the Department of Museology between the years 1979 and 2002. and how such representations materialized discursively through the collections and configured an imagined community and idealized that is confined to the Region Northeast of Brazil.