出版社：Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Inofrmação e Conhecimento (LIINC)
其他摘要：The present article analyzes the formation of the collections of the Historical Museum
of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and its relation with the urban reforms that occurred in the former
capital of the Republic. The successive interferences in the city created an extremely fragmented
collection. The objects that compose it, in its majority, had not gone to the museum due to a
desire to collect. Based on available documentation in the archives and on the testimony of
several people who participated in the process, we analyzed the formation of the collections with
the intention of identifying the existence of a museological project defined by the institution.
Different objects from different periods had become witnesses of the movements that took place
in Rio de Janeiro. Public spaces, governmental, religious and particular buildings, all had been
affected by the transformation of the city. When removed from the urbs and taken to the
museum, the property that became part of the collection lost its aesthetic, decorative, economic
value, and value of use, and now have only the value of testimony. The excessive fragmentation
of the collections its representation in relation to the city.
