De engenho à museu: um estudo do processo de criação do museu do Recôncavo Wanderley Pinho

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the process of musealization of Engenho Freguesia, recomposing its specific course and the historical trajectory of its transformation into the Wanderley Pinho Museum of Recôncavo. Because it was a collective process, it depended on the will and political action of different agents, as well as benefiting from its strategic positions in the political and cultural context of the time. Engenho Freguesia was the driving force for analysis, in the sense that it was under its influence that patrimonial practices were performed. The value of materiality is not inherent to it, given the displacement of function and meaning, through which space passed during its trajectory, initiated by the actions of Wanderley Pinho, sequenced by his followers and made official by the State. From the case studied, we see how the culture considered legitimate, is inserted in the Bahian identity justified by an appreciation of the past of the local elites, their deeds, their glories and their material heritage.