ISS 25 (1995).pdf - The International Council of Museums
ISS 25 (1995).pdf - The International Council of Museums ISS 25 (1995).pdf - The International Council of Museums
heritage, a source of local identity and an instrument to acknowledge such identity ... Ten years later, Hugues de Varine supports new museological tendencies and experiences which link the museum to its social environment and give it an unprecedented pedagogical projection. The Declaration of Quebec, a true ideological platform for museologists, became later the document which grouped all new socialization trends of museums. As from the Round Table in Santiago, Chile in 1972, the conception of an integral museum privileged its social and political aspects. Through the implementation of more integral services, it reached new sectors of the population, including a previously alien public. In 1992 -exactly twenty years later- museums' representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean met in Caracas, Venezuela to update the problems of the Santiago meeting. They reached final conclusions which figure in the Declaration of Caracas, a document of great value which assesses the new challenges faced by museology at present. Museums' activities, which were before addressed almost exclusively to students and tourists, contemplate now other social sectors which result highly benefitted by the social and cultural action displayed and the participation of the popUlation: museums where the subject plays an active role in the teachinglearning process; museums that are alternative education spaces and bring the subject into closer contact with the museological discourse in a critical, reflexive manner. The paradigms which before supported the social, political and cultural practices and theories are now not enough to explain changes produced by globalization. The museum-related discourse may not come to a happy ending if it has no valid interlocutor to demand concrete, dynamic actions. If the museum does not render a service to the community, it is condemned to disappear. Today, a more demanding society, more participative and creative, obliges him to review its practices, its functions and objectives which must be now supported by policies which tie closer bonds with the community. The use of methodological strategies -which permit the community to reencounter itself through the museum- is based on the defense and preservation of the integral heritage, natural and cultural. They foster a process of collective transformation which, as from the existing reality, promotes the development of social awareness. Important experiences on the part of community museums show they have contributed to rescuing collective memory, historical moments which contribute to recovering the identity of a community. 40
''The museum must openly embrace the plurality and uncertainty of our nations which are going through a process of transformation. .. When the contemporary movements which make up culture are taken into consideration, from the multidirectional migrations to the transnationalization of communications, the concept of a nation loses its abstract nature ... .. 2 It is necessary to encourage the communities to create museums which represent their lives and their memory. Museums where traditional values are appreciated: tangible and intangible heritage. Museums with a capacity for evolution and transformation, which are also capable of having a critical outlook on the actions of the society they are part of. Museums which invite the people to become actors of their own culture. Museums which contemplate the needs of the young generations, particularly in the urban centres, where the process of losing one's identity is usually dangerously accelerated. Museums which have programmes especially addressed to the less protected sectors. Museums where not only the object is venerated but also its meaning. Museums which give rise to an identity full of future .. . 2 Bonfil Castro, Garcia Canciini et al; Memorias del Simposio: Patrimonio, Museo y Participaci6n Sociat, Colecci6n Cientifica, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, 1990. 41
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''<strong>The</strong> museum must openly embrace the plurality and uncertainty <strong>of</strong> our nations<br />
which are going through a process <strong>of</strong> transformation. .. When the contemporary<br />
movements which make up culture are taken into consideration, from the<br />
multidirectional migrations to the transnationalization <strong>of</strong> communications, the<br />
concept <strong>of</strong> a nation loses its abstract nature ... .. 2<br />
It is necessary to encourage the communities to create museums which<br />
represent their lives and their memory. <strong>Museums</strong> where traditional values are<br />
appreciated: tangible and intangible heritage. <strong>Museums</strong> with a capacity for<br />
evolution and transformation, which are also capable <strong>of</strong> having a critical outlook<br />
on the actions <strong>of</strong> the society they are part <strong>of</strong>. <strong>Museums</strong> which invite the people to<br />
become actors <strong>of</strong> their own culture. <strong>Museums</strong> which contemplate the needs <strong>of</strong><br />
the young generations, particularly in the urban centres, where the process <strong>of</strong><br />
losing one's identity is usually dangerously accelerated. <strong>Museums</strong> which have<br />
programmes especially addressed to the less protected sectors. <strong>Museums</strong> where<br />
not only the object is venerated but also its meaning. <strong>Museums</strong> which give rise to<br />
an identity full <strong>of</strong> future .. .<br />
2 Bonfil Castro, Garcia Canciini et al; Memorias del Simposio: Patrimonio, Museo y Participaci6n<br />
Sociat, Colecci6n Cientifica, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico, 1990.<br />
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