Construction of the museal space:

science, education and sociality in the genesis of the Goeldi Museum’s Zoobotanical Park (1895-1914)

Authors

  • Lilian Suescun Florez Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
  • Nelson Sanjad Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
  • Wanda Okada Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-02672018v26e15

Keywords:

Living collection, Botanic Garden, Museums of nature, Musealization

Abstract

The article analyses the construction of the Zoobotanical Park of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi during the administration of its idealizers, Emilio Goeldi (1895-1907) and Jacques Huber (1907-1914). Although the park is now an organic area and spreads across a whole block in the center of Belem (PA), Brazil, it was conceived as two distinct annexes of the museum, the zoo and the botanical garden, each located on opposite sides of the institution’s main building. These annexes were created from the expropriation, transformation, and resignification of lands, buildings and vegetables that already existed in the place. Having as starting points the concept of museality and the issues underlying the creation and functioning of museums, the text is developed in four narratives – communicational and educational, scientific, leisure and sociality, domestic –, which we understand as matrices that shaped and organized the museal space. These narratives allowed us to study the genesis of institutional identity, which, in its essence, is perpetuated to the present day.

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Author Biographies

  • Lilian Suescun Florez, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

    Mestre e doutora em Museologia e Patrimônio pela Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e pelo Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins

  • Nelson Sanjad, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

    Pesquisador do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade Federal do Pará

  • Wanda Okada, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

    Coordenadora de Museologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Published

2018-10-11

Issue

Section

Museums

How to Cite

FLOREZ, Lilian Suescun; SANJAD, Nelson; OKADA, Wanda. Construction of the museal space:: science, education and sociality in the genesis of the Goeldi Museum’s Zoobotanical Park (1895-1914). Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 26, p. e15, 2018. DOI: 10.1590/1982-02672018v26e15. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/151040.. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.