Museus, espaços promissores à divulgação da Ciência: o caso do Museu Amazônico da UFAM

Abstract

Museums are institutions that affirmed themselves as a place that hold and preserve memories. However, over time, this concept was being discussed and museums have become the object of cultural criticism, being accused of collaborating for maintenance of bourgeois social structures, through the appropriation of cultural capital by social class that holds the political and economic power, that by incorporating this capital, transform it into symbolic capital to be used to justify regimes of differences between classes. The extent to which these discussions occur, opening up opportunities to unmask the ideological mechanisms that ensure the maintenance and create bases to overcome them. Thus, the museums can be seen as producers of knowledge centers that establish strong links with the Science and Education and constitute themselves as powerful communication systems in this process. New theories originated from ecology or even from sociology, are offering promising perspectives for thinking about Museums as communicational ecosystemstherein, it is verified the production and reproduction mechanisms that create the foundation for maintaining the systems, where it is possible to understand the changes and struct a study of ural adjustments that constitute the autopoiesis of these ecosystem. Mediants a case in the Amazonian Museum, a supplementary organ of Federal University of Amazon, characterized as as a museum associated to humanities, especially history, anthropology andarcheology. We try to observe, based on recent theories, this museum as ecosystem communicational, trying to identify their regulatory mechanisms used to produce and reproduceand what is the role of science dissemination in the process