Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaImages and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche
Museums of political memory have been dedicated to the education of recent history in countries that suffered with authoritarianism. Simultaneously, they promote the reparation of traumatic memory of victims of State violence. Practical and theoretical work has been done in order to extend the pedag...
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Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
2021
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| description | Museums of political memory have been dedicated to the education of recent history in countries that suffered with authoritarianism. Simultaneously, they promote the reparation of traumatic memory of victims of State violence. Practical and theoretical work has been done in order to extend the pedagogical activities through the inclusion of testimonies and declarations of witnesses. The photographic image as historical analysis tool helps us understand the late XIX century hegemonic European discourse and the Estado Novo ideology, that oppressed Portugal for 48 years. At the same time, photography has played a significant role in building up a counter-discourse and complementing the struggle of the people. Nowadays, the audiovisual document is an essencial tool in preserving the resistance memory. These recordings, promoted by the Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (MNRL) – National Museum of Resistance and Freedom –, seek to fill up gaps in Portuguese collective memory, placing them in a traumatic memory musealised space that is the Peniche fort, used as political prison. We support the idea that the gathering and the exposition of these individual memories can publicly express recognition of the past injustices, and that its musealisation is an essencial step in breaking historical silencing. It was made a critical analysis of the table of content suggested for the MNRL and an objective analysis of the exposition 'Por Teu Livre Pensamento' – For Your Free Thinking. It has been observed that, to this moment, the museum narrative still reproduce a celebrative character about the 25th of April, and that despite the inauguration of the memory of the resistance in the Portuguese national museums minor effort has been made to discuss the controversial year of 1975 that draw this country's politics. Key-words: Photography; Colective Memory; Sociomuseology; National Museum of Resistance and Freedom; |
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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO490192022-03-17T17:47:04Z Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche Imagens e Memórias Coletivas: O Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade em Peniche Souza, Henrique Museums of political memory have been dedicated to the education of recent history in countries that suffered with authoritarianism. Simultaneously, they promote the reparation of traumatic memory of victims of State violence. Practical and theoretical work has been done in order to extend the pedagogical activities through the inclusion of testimonies and declarations of witnesses. The photographic image as historical analysis tool helps us understand the late XIX century hegemonic European discourse and the Estado Novo ideology, that oppressed Portugal for 48 years. At the same time, photography has played a significant role in building up a counter-discourse and complementing the struggle of the people. Nowadays, the audiovisual document is an essencial tool in preserving the resistance memory. These recordings, promoted by the Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (MNRL) – National Museum of Resistance and Freedom –, seek to fill up gaps in Portuguese collective memory, placing them in a traumatic memory musealised space that is the Peniche fort, used as political prison. We support the idea that the gathering and the exposition of these individual memories can publicly express recognition of the past injustices, and that its musealisation is an essencial step in breaking historical silencing. It was made a critical analysis of the table of content suggested for the MNRL and an objective analysis of the exposition 'Por Teu Livre Pensamento' – For Your Free Thinking. It has been observed that, to this moment, the museum narrative still reproduce a celebrative character about the 25th of April, and that despite the inauguration of the memory of the resistance in the Portuguese national museums minor effort has been made to discuss the controversial year of 1975 that draw this country's politics. Key-words: Photography; Colective Memory; Sociomuseology; National Museum of Resistance and Freedom; Os museus de memória política têm se dedicado à educação da história recente em países que sofreram com o autoritarismo. Simultaneamente, promovem a reparação de memórias traumáticas de quem foi vítima da violência de Estado. Trabalha-se pelo alargamento da atividade pedagógica dos museus por meio da inclusão de depoimentos e testemunhos. A imagem fotográfica, enquanto suporte de análise histórica, nos auxilia no entendimento do discurso hegemónico europeu do final do século XIX e da ideologia do Estado Novo, que oprimiu Portugal por 48 anos. Ao mesmo tempo, a fotografia desempenhou um papel importante na construção de um contradiscurso que desmentia a propaganda política. Atualmente, o documento audiovisual é fundamental para a preservação da memória de resistência. Os registros de relatos, viabilizados pelo Museu Nacional de Resistência e Liberdade, buscam preencher lacunas na memória coletiva portuguesa, integrando-as num espaço de memória traumática musealizado que é o forte de Peniche, usado como prisão política. Defende-se a ideia de que a recolha e a exposição destas memórias individuais podem expressar o reconhecimento público das injustiças do passado, e que sua musealização é fundamental na quebra do silenciamento histórico. Foi feita uma análise crítica do conteúdo proposto para o MRNL e uma análise concreta da exposição Por Teu Livre Pensamento. Observou-se que – até o momento – a narrativa do museu ainda reproduz um caráter comemorativista sobre o 25 de Abril e que apesar da inserção inaugural da memória de resistência aos museus nacionais pouco se discute sobre o tumultuado ano de 1975 que estampou a política portuguesa. Palavras-chave: Fotografia; Memória Coletiva; Sociomuseologia; Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdad 2021-12-11 2022-03-17T17:47:04Z 2022-03-17T17:47:04Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/8015 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/49019 por https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/8015/4747 Direitos de Autor (c) 2021 Cadernos de Sociomuseologia application/pdf Edições Universitárias Lusófonas Cadernos de Sociomuseologia; Vol. 62 No. 18 (2021): Education, participation and heritage Cadernos de Sociomuseologia; v. 62 n. 18 (2021): Educação, participação e património 1646-3714 1646-3706 |
| spellingShingle | Souza, Henrique Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title | Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title_full | Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title_fullStr | Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title_full_unstemmed | Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title_short | Images and Collective Memories: The National Resistance and Freedom Museum in Peniche |
| title_sort | images and collective memories: the national resistance and freedom museum in peniche |
| url | https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/cadernosociomuseologia/article/view/8015 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/49019 |