MEMORY CENTER OF THE FACULTY OF LETTERS OF THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS: an apprenticeship

Abstract

This work aims to report on the professional experience lived, still as a student of the undergraduate course in Museology. The internship took place in the Memory Center of the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Minas Gerais - FALE-UFMG, the duration was two months. The objective was to contribute to the creation, assembly of the first exhibition and the inauguration of the new memory space within FALE. This laboratory served to work together with several professionals from other areas of knowledge and at the same time to understand the relevance of the museological process in these museum spaces. At that moment, it was possible to carry out various museological actions, such as acquisition, selection, organization, treatment and communication of the collections and collections available for the assembly of the center. For this purpose, it was based on the literature and the learning acquired during the graduation. It was first set out for a historical institutional research, followed by visits to the departments of the Faculty, where surveys and analyzes of documents and objects related to the history of FALE were carried out. This informational documentation was essential and decisive for the creation and assembly of the exhibition. The importance of interdisciplinarity, so much defended by Museology, that is, the participation of several professionals acting together, as well as the alliance between museological theory and professional practice in literature, was concluded at the end of the internship and almost at the end of graduation. A museum space. Keywords: Memory center. Museum object. Museology. Information. Interdisciplinaride.