Memórias, disputas e invenções: o passado do museu imperial na esteira do discurso hegemônico da tradição

Abstract

From the Imperial Palace, owned by the royal family, during the nineteen century to the current museum organization, the Imperial Museum of Petrópolis, in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro, was adapted to different temporal demands. After celebrating the efforts union to transform itself into a museum, considered a document of the royal family, it represents the Empire in Brazil. Meeting these demands, regarding the political-ideological fulfillment of heritage buildings in the wake of the hegemonic discourse of nationalism, it ended up being part of an image created about the past editor of national culture. This article seeks, through historical materialism as a method, to reflect on power relations and the reproduction of the imagined and lived material life of the current “imperial city”, resulting in debates about nation and respectively power.