Museu e Desenvolvimento Local: O Museu como Instrumento de Internacionalização da Cultura Local

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Alice
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Livro
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/106986
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

From the 70s on, the model of industrial and technological development has been replaced by another, more concerned in demonstrating the endogenous potential of regions and underlying in their cultural and natural resources. The new development model is presented as essentially cultural. Based on an individual research project, recently started, centered in the cultural policies and cultural programmes of Portuguese city councils, this article analyses the case of a village in southern Portugal, in which a polinuclear municipal museum, initiated in 1980, plays a central role as an instrument of local empowerment. It will be shown that to enhance the endogenous development of the region, including through its integration into the cultural tourism circuits, cultural policies must not only be able to help the revitalization of local identities, but also its renewal, especially through the integration of the place in international cultural networks.