Entre estórias e dissonâncias: o patrimônio cultural a partir do Museu da Pessoa

Abstract

In this article, we analyse the way in which heritage can endorse dominant perspectives, while at the same time being able to sustain counter-hegemonic strategies in its dissonances, immersed in a dialectical relationship with social reality. To do this, we took the Museu da Pessoa ("Museum of the Person") as the subject of our paper. We investigated how the logic of the referred museum challenges not only traditional collectionism, but also the question of the figure of the specialist and the very meaning of cultural heritage. In view of its dissonant character, we elaborate on the paradoxical situation of the institution as an instance of legitimisation and proposer of power shifts in terms of museum-making.