O colecionador em exposição: o discurso colecionista de Alfredo Ferreira Lage nas exposições de longa duração do Museu Mariano Procópio

Abstract

The present work proposes to carry out an expographic analysis about the Mariano Procópio Museum, with a time frame defined by the decades of 1920 - when it was inaugurated, until 1980 - when the revitalization project occurred. Therefore, the research is based on the historiographical analysis of the agents involved and the collection processes that defined the circuits of objects in the institution, having as its main focus the patron/idealizer and collector Alfredo Ferreira Lage. The research also relates the museographic processes undertaken in the MMP to the theoreticalpractical transformations that took place in the field of museums in Brazil, reflecting on the heritage projects in dispute and on the management of the institution's collections. The discussion about the collection permeates the trajectory of the objects collected on exhibition, revealing important information about the collector. The discourses inserted in the different exhibitions of the museum have as their point of analysis the interpretation of reality and the dialogue between the fields of History and Museology.