Preservação do patrimônio arqueológico de fronteira: Museo del Patrimonio Regional de Rivera - Uruguai

Abstract

This research presents the interventive processes developed at the collection of the Museo del Patrimonio Regional from Rivera city, Uruguay. Museological institutions frequently are in need of public money and human resources appropriate in order to preserve the regions heritage, making it difficult for expositions and the curatorship of the collections. Thus, some museum administrators resort, as an alternative, to the establishment of partnerships with study and research institutions, both from Uruguay and abroad. As an associated researcher to the Laboratório Multidisciplinar de Investigação Arqueológica (LÂMINA - UFPel), and with the support of this laboratory, we decided to develop a project in order to improve the management of the collection from the Museo del Patrimonio Regional. The employed methodology was an adaptation of the procedures and criterion used by the LÂMINA in other institutions from Brazil and abroad, encompassing activities of diagnosis of the conditioning and display environments for the archaeological and historical collections; an update on the conservation state of the collections; elaboration and execution of interventive projects; storage and extroversion of the collections; creation of laboratories for conservation and restoration; capacitation for professionals and technicians and; musealization of historical sites. The accomplishment of those activities, together with their disclosure, have put, in our opinion, the museum into another regional level. The valuation of the collections and of the different social actors involved was confirmed as another achievement of this project