SOCIAL MUSEOLOGY AND SHARED MANAGEMENT AS MOBILITY FOR AFRO-RELIGIOUS CULTURAL RESCUE IN MUSEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

This article envisages a reflection on the representation of Afro-religious culture in museums in Pelotas, using social museology and shared and collaborative management as possible ways to assist in this cultural mobility. The city of Pelotas, located in the south of Rio Grande do Sul, has had an expressive Afro-Brazilian presence since its origin, however, the representation of black people in the city's museums is limited to the association of black people with slavery, when it occurs. Through a survey carried out with managers of the main museums and institutions in the city and religious representatives, we sought to understand the main reasons associated with the absence of representation of Afro culture in museums and the identification of problems that orbit the silencing of black people, among them, the difficulty in working with these collections in the expographic and cultural discourses organized in these spaces. For this reason, this work seeks to identify what are the main difficulties associated with the theme, and to present the shared and collaborative management model developed at the Museum of the Republic of Rio de Janeiro as a possible direction to expand the representation of Afro-religious culture in the region.