Patrimônio histórico e poder : arte e política no ordenamento espetacular da “acreanidade”.

Abstract

This article focusses on the analysis of the transformation of the “Rio Branco” Palace – where the Government of the State of Acre is based – into a history museum, and, therefore, into a sort of place for the memory of the community of Acrean Amazon. Planned at the end of the 1920s, the “Rio Branco” Palace also functioned as the official residence of the Governor until the mid-1970s, when it began to function only as administrative head office of the Acrean Government. For the purposes of this paper, what is important is discussing the function change of the building, after its 2002 “revitalisation”, which turned into a museum, characterised by selected topics and rigorously coordinated by guides, who, in turn, are previously instructed to “relate to historical facts” that the “Palace Museum” started to represent, as a form of diffusion for a crystallised history of this Amazonian state.

Keywords

• memory
• history
• museum
• rio branco palace
• acrean amazon