Sigrid Pôrto de Barros: An intelectual mediator in the museum field

• Autor(a) principal: Faria, Ana Carolina Gelmini de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/39915
• topic: History of Education in Museums; Museum field; Active School; Intellectual Mediator; Sigrid Pôrto de Barros; Historia de la educación en los museos.; Ámbito de los museos.; Escuela Activa.; Mediador intelectual.; Sigrid Pôrto de Barros.; História da Educação em Museus; Campo dos museus; Escola Ativa; Intelectual Mediador; Sigrid Pôrto de Barros

This work presents evidences of the Sigrid Pôrto de Barros trajectory in the museum field as a museum conservator. It is centered in the 1950s, when she became a National Historical Museum's employee, until the 1970s, time when she was head of Research and Pedagogical Museographic Assistance Section of the Museum's Educational and Cultural Activities Division. Although she is a professional with little recognition in the field's historiography, her performance evidences a career that faced towards the consolidation of the museums educative role, with emphasis in receiving school children public through implementation strategies in museums of Active School principles. For this investigation there were analyzes of reports, the professional's writing and other sources that assist the comprehension of Museum Education debates back in that time. The concept of intellectual mediator (GOMES; HANSEN, 2016) bases the argumentative construction in this research. The analysis shows that professionals of the museum field, expressively composed by women in Brazil, were up to date in debates about education and its possible links to museums, and that their actions legitimized those institutions as a learning space, which now is considered to be an expressive mark in the role of contemporary museums.