Informational gaps in museum documentation: an analysis on Maranhão's Bumba Meu Boi collection under the custody of the Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum

Abstract

It intends to address the importance of the development and application of new methodologies, which seek to assist in the analysis and subsequent diagnosis of the current situation of museological documentation in museums with custody of objects of popular culture. It also seeks to publicize some of the preliminary results obtained from the experience of analysis of the museum documentation applied to the objects related to the Bumba Meu Boi of Maranhão, under the custody of the Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum (ECFM) in the research project "Objects/collections of popular culture under the custody of museums of the state of Rio de Janeiro". In addition, this article also seeks to briefly address the historicization of the ECFM and the main events prior to its creation, such as the institution of the Brazilian Folklore Defense Campaign (BFDC) until its transformation into the current National Center of Folklore and Popular Culture (NCFPC).