The Maré Museum: the New Social Museology from a Critical Perspective

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https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.227.v1n21.06.2020

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new museology; social inclusion; favela museums; museum policies; collective curatorship

Abstract

This article reviews the case study of the Maré Museum in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and how the new museology has affected the creation of community museums in the context of new public policies. Furthermore, the article explains how this initiative helps to create processes of citizen inclusion, reconstruction of history, and reconfiguration of limits and boundaries within cities.

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Author Biographies

David Felipe Suárez Mira, School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, United States of America

MA candidate in curatorial practice at the School of Visual Arts (New York, USA). He has a master’s degree in Museology and Heritage Management from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL, Colombia) (2016-2018) and Journalism from the Universidad Central (2015). He is an active member of the International Movement for a New Museology (Minom). He was the winner of the scholarship for curatorial projects: Museums and Local Knowledge (2018). He has experience at the Museu da República and the Rede de Museologia Social do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2017). He has researched the collections of the Banco de la República de Colombia (2016-2017) and has been part of the press team of the Museo de Arte de Bogotá, Colombia (2010-2014). As a journalist, he has written as a specialized editor for publications such as Revista Nueva Museología, Periódico Arteria, and Revista Arcadia. He has produced exhibitions for the art program of the Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá, Feria Internacional
de Arte de Bogotá (Artbo, Colombia). He is a museum adviser to the Museo Arqueológico Eliécer Silva Celis and correspondent for the Chilean magazine Arte Al Límite.

Camillo de Mello Vasconcellos, Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brasil

Ph. D. in social history from the Universidad de São Paulo (USP, Brazil). Professor at the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia of the usp in the area of Museology. He taught the course Museology in Latin America at the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía (ENCRyM-INAH, México) in 2011. He works in the Postgraduate Programs in Archaeology and Museology at usp as lecturer. Coordination of the Interuniversity Postgraduate Program in Museology at USP (2016-2018). He has been a guest lecturer of the Master in Museology at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL, Colombia) since 2008 and of the Specialization Course in Historical Heritage and Museums at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB, Ecuador). He coordinates the academic agreement between the museology masters of the USP and the UNAL. His main lines of research are Museums and Education and History of Museums in Latin America. He represents the USP in the Unión de Universidades Iberoamericanas (UIU) agreement.

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2020-09-21

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Suárez Mira, D. F., & de Mello Vasconcellos, C. (2020). The Maré Museum: the New Social Museology from a Critical Perspective. Intervención, 1(21), 185–211. https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.227.v1n21.06.2020

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Vol. 1 No. 21 (2020): JANUARY-JUNE

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