“Seu lugar é no museu!” A atuação do Museu Vivo do São Bento na construção de sentidos sobre o patrimônio da Baixada Fluminense

Abstract

This research, within the scope of an interdisciplinary masters, in heritage, culture, and society, has chosen to study an institution that is outstanding in the Baixada Fluminense that deals with issues related to the expansion of the patrimonial field: the "Museu Vivo de São Bento". This choice was due to the need and importance of valuing and strengthening initiatives that focus on the heritage, memory, and history of the Baixada Fluminense, issues which are so expensive for the region. To do so, the research includes the "Museu Vivo de São Bento" as a space of struggle and resistance since its creation and also invests in the perception and characterization of the meaning of the multiple activities developed within the institution. It thus takes the social museology, of which the "Museu Vivo de São Bento" has praxis, as an important reference, which demonstrates from the fronts of actions and senses of the museum, what are the uses and appropriations knowledge and practices that contribute to the construction of feelings of belonging and of collectivity, as well as encouraging experimentation from the perspective of the fields of cultural heritage, patrimonial education and social museology. This work, therefore, announces these fields as inclusive and democratic tools to be used and appropriated in the service of social justice and human dignity.