El Archivo Documental, Administrativo e Histórico de la Administración de Parques Nacionales en el Museo de la Patagonia “Dr. Francisco P. Moreno”

Abstract

Objects, in order to become scientific objects, require to be processed into paper. The practice of science as it is known today would not exist without the role that favored the exchange and circulation of objects, ideas and books, the formation of collections and catalogs, registration of fieldwork, the instruction of observers and their answers. Thanks to the corpus of documents that have survived today, institutional histories can be reconstructed, but also scientific sociability networks, including the relationship between teachers, correspondents and traders of natural history objects. In this regard, and given that today the production spaces of local and regional stories are revalued, and that this will bring out the documentary records of such spaces, understanding that the documentary resource is the fundamental basis of historical research, and said material provides fragments of the past that must be analyzed and collated by researchers attempting to approach the past, and in order to survey the Documentary Administrative and Historical Archive of de Administration of Nationals Parks, in the Patagonia Museum "Dr. Francisco P. Moreno", this paper proposes a journey through the history of the institution, a brief state of the art, its challenges and opportunities.

Keywords

• Museum
• Archive
• Patagonia
• Digitization
• National State