A educação patrimonial: um estudo das possibilidades de acesso e utilização no Museu dos Capuchinhos, no Convento do Carmo, para práticas educativas

Abstract

This research intends to discuss about the Heritage Education, highlighting its importance for education itself and how it is processed in the memory’s ambient like the museum. Therefore, it aims to study the possibilities of access and utilization in the Museu dos Capuchinos, in Convento do Carmo, in São Luís-MA, for Heritage Education practices. The thematic axis of this research offers a wider, more practical and social meaning of what is usually observed in a formal education. According to Horta (1991), this type of education can be treated as a permanent and systematic process, centered on Cutural Heritage, so that the pedagogical practice is based in questions and experiences, observing the concepts and studies. The museum, one of the best known memory institutions in society, has the function of protect the cultural goods, as well as, according to the Política Nacional de Museus, democratize acess to cultural goods, relying on democratic management to facilitate the dialogue between heritage and the society (BRASIL,2009). For this research, the focus was on the Museu dos Capuchinhos, administered by curator Maria Iraci Soares Monteiro. This museum was designed by Friar Ângelo Faloni, who idealized the collection of some objects in order to preserve the significant memories of Capuchinho’s trajectory in Maranhão, such as photographs, documentos, daily objects, implements, kitchen utensils, holy images, old books, painting made by friars, among other artifacts, thus composing the museum. In 2007, its inauguration was held with the support of the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (Iphan) and of the Museu de Arte Sacra do Maranhão. For better understanding, the study will be divided into documental research about topics such as: Heritage Education, legislations, museums and it’s importance, as well as the Museu dos Capuchinhos itself. Subsequently, it will proceed from a perspective of participant observation, identifying the methods and techniques of organization of the archive of museum pieces, so finally the possibilities of educational practices for the preservation of cultural heritage be examined in the organization of the institution, observing the Heritage Education. Its development took place in the following problem: in what way have museums, like the Museu dos Capuchinhos, in Convento do Carmo, created situations for dialogue between the available archive and the public under influence of Heritage Education? Based on the studies obtained from the research, it was observed that the Museu dos Capuchinhos from Nossa Senhora do Carmo Province has the reponsability of carrying the history of missionaries who, besides taking their principles of the catholic Christian Faith, had participation in the historical construction of the city of São Luís. Although there is no body of professional in the area of education, there is a concern to make a pedagogical planning for educational actions in order to take the name of the institution to other places, as well as to work in the individuals of the community the feeling of belonging to the place and its history