Matizes políticas e culturais na criação do Museu Wanderley Pinho (Recôncavo Baiano ”“ 1968-1971)

Abstract

This paper evaluates the founding of the Wanderley Pinho Museum (1968-1971), a specific case in the field of museology in the State of Bahia. The critical analysis focuses on the centralization of conservation as a public practice that highlights topics that are wider than the mere physical safeguarding of material items from the past, in which the political effects reign supreme over cultural considerations. The materiality that characterizes the Sugar Mill/Museum space is the element that links the range of aspects evaluated, based on diverse sources of documents, uniting the theoretical-methodological approach that promotes museum-related institutions as places of discourse, interpretive spaces and political arenas impacting heritage preservation policies. We observed the interactions between institutions, strategies, agents, discourses, procedures and the level of action under specific conditions. It was concluded that the museological narrative through specific decisions and choices used the past to maintain the ideological tradition of a group, represented by the figure of José Wanderley de Araújo Pinho, the commemorative museum of a specific stratum of Bahian society.