The museum in the community: patrimony, identity and development

• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, José Amado
• Data de Publicação: 1999
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.7559/gestaoedesenvolvimento.1999.676

The issues related to the patrimony have been frequently analysed, as it can be proved by the wide variety of bibliography focusing on them. This is due to several factors, among which one may highlight: on one hand, the enlargement of the concept of patrimony, in the last decades, made that it started to include also realities which were strange to it. On the other hand, a certain globalisation, including the cultural level, has caused counter reactions, which tend to reinforce the identities of the communities. Finally, a real museological boom has contributed to safeguard considerable parcels of patrimony, in contrast with the part which in the past was object of intervention. The potentialities of the museums have begun to be quite evident not only at a cultural and educational level but also concerning the development. This situation has occurred due to a certain "patrimonylisation" of reality as well as of a boost in the creation of museums.