Abstract
This chapter will present an overview and analysis of the virtual museum and online digital archive of the Museu da Pessoa or Museum of the Person, founded in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1991, and, from 1997, freely accessible via the Museum’s portal www.museudapessoa.org (Figure 8.1). The museum’s original purpose, as defined by its founder and director Karen Worcman, was to record, collect, organise and archive the life stories and personal histories of the nation’s citizens into a public databank and resource. Throughout a period of seventeen years, and within the development of more than one hundred thematic projects designed to integrate and frame over six thousand narratives collected from the nation’s citizens, the ‘virtual network of life stories’ (Worcman, 2002) has been extended to a project of national and, since 2004, international scope. Open image in new window Figure 8.1 A virtual museum of life stories: the homepage of the Museum of the Person Source: http://www.museudapessoa.net (2007).
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