The museological experience: concepts for a Museum phenomenology

Abstract

This paper investigates the ontological base of museology, the essence of its subject. This essence has its genesis in the core of human individual and reflects its relationships. Considering a few of the modern manifestations of the Museum, as well as the ideological movement known as New Museology, it’s possible to perceive that the human experience is and has always been the legitimized and true object of the Museum. To conceive a museology as a human science with its own subject of study implies inserting it in a particular epistemological framework. In the framework of these sciences that study the elements of the human being – this complex subject – and its relationships with the world, museology finds in the phenomenon Museum, and in the museological experience that defines it as such, the subject that makes it a disciplinary field among the contemporary sciences.