¿Museos para la comunidad? : Potencialidades y dilemas para crear museos como espacios participativos y abiertos.

Abstract

In this text I am going to propose three dimensions of the relationship between public space and museums; heritage and communities. First, I will trace a tour of the museum-heritage relationship around the most established definitions, secondly, I will make a brief genesis of the positions that over the decades were built around the debates of UNESCO. For this I will focus on the definitions of heritage and its implications and impact on the perspectives given to Museums. Finally, I will explore dilemmas and potentialities when talking about the museum / community relationship, based on the concrete experience of the Museum of Anthropology in Córdoba, Argentina. For this, I will anchor my gaze around knowledge and the power relations that are established in the definitions of what is included or excluded in museums, to make visible the asymmetric relationship that is woven with the communities. The questions from which I start in a transversal way, pose: How is knowledge built in museums? Who builds it? For what and for whom?