Museum of Origins: a visionary project by Mário Pedrosa

A visionary project by Mário Pedrosa

Abstract

Since 1978, when Mário Pedrosa proposed the creation of the Museum of Origins (MO), until today - political, cultural, social and media agendas have become part of the horizons of expectations of intellectuals and artists sensitive to significant changes in ethnic and social relationships. For this reason, the proposal deserves to be revisited today in view of new sociocultural contexts. As a visionary project, it must be analyzed within the current museological perspectives, in a different historical and social context, since the configuration of ideas and the material conditions for such a bold undertaking are now much more mature. For the issues of identity, gender, race and diversity are markedly present in various agendas of political demands and art cannot escape these facts. The article intends to analyze the MO project with a new perspective, aware of the discursive network that prevailed at the time of its formulation in comparison with what was glimpsed later in the fields of art and culture.