Territory museums as a mobilization strategy for envoironmental and cultural heritage

Abstract

The use of memory and heritage are important devices to institutionalize
new discourses and to reflect on institutional relationships at different
scales. One of the main instruments for this construction are the museums.
Museums, as memory institutions, build a narrative that privileges a certain history and, consequently, cause others to be forgotten. Therefore, we can point to museums as institutions with a system of relationships and a set of ideas and values. However, currently, noticing a change in the understanding of the museum is possible: the field of museology has expanded and even traditional museums are affected by the emergence of plurality. Since 70s, with Varine and Rivière, the  ecomuseum model gains amplitude,
in an integration of diversified museological projects, associated with the concepts “community museum” and “territory museum”. In these contexts, several agents are present, which consider the political, cultural, economic, and territorial that influence the way the device is used, with symbolic value attributed to the place. Therefore, this activity aims to understand in a relational way how the environmental and cultural heritage dialogue and diverge, using territory museums as object of analysis in contrast to traditional museums, especially. Despite the different typologies in this category of museum between ecomuseums and  territory/community development museums, which apparently separate the environmental from the cultural, seeing how they go together, having more similarities than differences, is possible.