El Museo Itinerante del Barrio de la Refinería: renovación museológica, memoria popular e identidad vecinal en Rosario (Argentina)

Abstract

In Argentina, the adoption of the premises of “new museology” since the 1980s meant that many of the existing museums in the country generated new organization and management strategies and renewed their forms of communication and interaction with the public, becoming institutions able to use the plurality of political, social and cultural characteristics, the asymmetries and fractures of society. Such questions are being reviewed by new research that forces us to study concrete cases and to relocate its cultural specificity into a framework of general analysis. This paper examines the way in which such museological discourse and policies were used in the city of Rosario (located in the province of Santa Fe), analyzing the conditions under which the “Museo Itinerante del Barrio de la Refinería” forms a specific exhibition proposal and reading of heritage.

Keywords

• new museology
• popular memory
• neighbor identity
• local museum
• Rosario (Argentina)