Narrativas expográficas sobre o Egito Antigo: uma análise sobre a ausência das histórias dos comuns em exposições virtualizadas

Abstract

This dissertation was carried out in the Postgraduate Program in Museology of the Federal University of Bahia, in line 1 - museology and social development, and supported by CAPES. This dissertation reflects on the trend of narratives in virtualized exhibitions of museums about Ancient Egypt, using as cut out five exhibitions, these being in Europe and America. The analysis questions the repetition of certain narratives about Ancient Egypt, a standard inclination to bring as a thematic focus great leaders and their lives, in addition to funerary knowledge, excluding from museum exhibitions the experiences of ordinary people. Analyzing to what extent the narratives constructed from these exhibitions, bring from knowledge of the daily life of the ancient Egyptians, and their influences from concepts such as Egypomania and Orientalism. Thus interpreting the relevance of everyday life to studies of subjectivity and culture in expographic treatment, and its reflection in knowledge influenced to visitors. Thus, for the analysis of these exhibitions, the qualitative method was used, seeking museums with collection on Ancient Egypt in various parts of the world and with virtual access to their full face-to-face exhibition. The research methodology is the analytical method, constructed from the analysis of the five exhibitions: Egyptian and Rosacruz Museum, Curitiba, Brazil; Banco do Brasil Cultural Center and the exhibition on Ancient Egypt brought from the Museum of Turin, Italy; Smithsonian - National Museum of Natural History, United States; Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, California, United States; World Museum Liverpool, UK. At the end is presented a chapter with bibliography on Egiptology of the suggested themes for possible divergent approaches from the existing ones. Seeking the plurality of representations and identification and continuous admiration, not only for the rulers of the ancient kingdoms, but also for the hands that built them