Pesquisa Em Museologia

Este texto discute o que é a pesquisa em Museologia, procura diferenciá-la da pesquisa em museu e propõe o uso da expressão pesquisa museológica em lugar de simplesmente pesquisa, já que a indiferenciação provoca confusão entre os dois tipos de pesquisas que podem ocorrer em instituições museológicas: a pesquisa básica e a pesquisa aplicada.
Errata: Página 145, 2o parágrafo, onde está reação leia-se relação.

This article presents the primary theoretical and conceptual framework in which the elaboration
of the pedagogical project for the 2010 Museology undergraduate program at the Federal
University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil is based. It discusses the amplified concept of a museum, the
place of Museology as a discipline of Applied Social Sciences and the specific research content
within Museology. A moment of great expansion of the higher education in Brazil provided
context for the creation of this programme, through a Federal Government project entitled
Program to Support Restructuring and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities (REUNI) and
also by the UFG’s initiative through its Faculty of Social Science and Anthropological Museum,
which has become the main laboratory for the new Museology course. We present the
structural concepts of this course as museum, Museology as a Applied Social Science field
and other discussions which were important to choose the disciplines offered in the program,
if we consider the existence of a General Museology, a Special Museology and an Applied
Museology, and also the existence of a museological chain of operation based on cultural
heritage safeguard and communication, in opposition to the hegemonial program structure
considering preservation, research and communication. In our view, the chain of operation
implies the existence of museological applied research integrating it parts (which are documentation,
conservation, expography and cultural educational action), and avoid to explicitly
mention research because it can be misunderstood with systematic investigation and study of
collections, which are also done inside the museum, but belongs to others fields’ knowledge,
external to Museology. We also try to demonstrate how the UFG’s structure of Museology
Course has privileged to prepare students for applied research in Museology, avoiding overlapping
contents from other knowledge fields which also make researches and interpretations
of museum collections.