Museal exercises with UFRGS university heritage: actions for the preservation and dissemination of collections of a museological character

Abstract

The Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) has its history started in 1895 with the creation of what would become their first courses, formulated as a university in 1934, named the University of Porto Alegre. Its federalization occurred in 1950, passing to the administrative sphere of the Union. If we  consider the date of foundation of the first  formations, we have 125 years of history of education in southern Brazil. This trajectory is present in written documents and in the material culture linked to UFRGS. How to preserve, research and promote objects that evoke this history? The qualification in Museology of UFRGS has sought management strategies of this collection to disseminate the knowledge produced by such
mobile material evidence. This article thus shares three experiences: the Museology extension program at UFRGS: trajectories and memories; the
UFRGS Museological Collection Management project; and the elective class Special Topics in Museological Research of the undergraduate course in Museology – to reflect on the museum nature of the collections that may become musealia to safeguard the university. The University was shown to have a vast cultural heritage under its tutelage, but the pathway to become musealias is still long. There is a need for interlocution and articulation between areas of knowledge, as well as the construction and  consolidation of sectorial policies to disseminate scientific and cultural production present at UFRGS through its mobile university cultural heritage.