Curadoria em museus de história natural: processos disruptivos na comunicação da informação em exposições museológicas de longa duração

Abstract

The present study discusses the curatorial singularities in natural history museums. We consider the concept of curatorship has heterogenic meanings in different areas of knowledge and space of memory preservation. There is, although, a point of convergence in this diversity: a decision-making specialist, a researcher owner of expertise. The museolgical spaces of natural history was originated in the denominated “cabinets of curiosities” related to an encyclopedic tradition that delineate one of the main singularities of natural history museums: the search for a totality representation through its materiality. One of the specificities of the museological spaces of natural history lies on the essential paper to provide the comprehension of “discursive formations” that becomes of modern science interpretation about nature and artefacts from different social human groups through time. The curatorship in natural history museums determinates the development, management and science public communication. Our propose is consider the curatorial processes in view of concepts of Michel Foucault, specially the “dispositive”, that is structured for a heterogenic ensemble of discourses, institutions, architecture forms, laws administrative measure, scientific enunciations, moral and philanthropic proposition, what is sad and the unsaid. That perspective allows reflection about informational flow that integrates part of daily of these museums of natural history.