Tensões de memórias em disputa no Museu Casa de Rui Barbosa

Abstract

The dissertation relates memory, power, identity, non-formal educational spaces and history teaching. The main objective is to analyze the relations established between the permanent exhibition of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, and its impacts with the general public, whether the visitors themselves or the exhibition's mediators, as well as the staff and the director of the Museum. Thus, the research findings were interpreted through the memory disputes exposed there to understand if the permanent exhibition of the Museum points to a process of mythification or demystification referring to the figure of Rui Barbosa, from its humanization. The research presents a qualitative approach, with data collected through field observations, interviews and analysis of data related to the Book of Signatures. The results aim to contribute to studies about the use of museums as spaces of education in the process of construction of historical knowledge and identity empowerment. The product refers to a mobile application built with some rooms of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Museum, allowing the general public a virtual tour and its interaction with historical knowledge and memories there or underground.