A School Museum as an Archaeological Locus: history of the Mauá School Museum

Abstract

This research addresses the history of the Mauá School Museum (Santa Cruz do Sul, RS), here considered as a school museum in its early decades and a locus of archaeological research since its reopening in the 1960s. It emphasizes the role of its agents who acted as collectors of archaeological remains in the region and among its inhabitants. The investigation is guided by historiographical operation within the fields of educational history and museum history and uses photographic images and written records to construct the proposed narrative. The theoretical and methodological foundation is based on historiographical operation related to the evidential paradigm, with the multidisciplinary contribution made possible by Cultural History studies and their connection to the History of Education and Museology.