Museografía y recreación de la historia: la formación del Museo Pampeano y Parque “Los Libres del Sur”

• Main Author: María Élida Blasco
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Científico y Tecnológico-CONICET, Mendoza & Universidad Nacional de La Pampa 2013-06-01
• Series: Corpus: Archivos Virtuales de la Alteridad Americana
• Subjects: Pampa Museum; “Los Libres del Sur” Park; Chascomús; Museography
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/corpusarchivos/237

This article explores the creation of the Pampa Museum which would find its definitive location in “Los Libres del Sur” Park in the city of Chascomús. Since both the Museum and the Park were born in the context of the centenary’s homage to the so-called “Libres del Sur Revolution”—the uprising of rural landowners and merchants against Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1839. In possession of first-hand documentary sources obtained from the personal archive of historian and publicist Enrique Udaondo —one of the greater promoters for the Museum and Park creation—, the general objective of this work is to explore the interrelation between local and external factors which motivated the museum foundation and that gave shape to the practices that operated within during its first years of activity. In this context, we are particularly interested in the participation capacity of some agents, which although they are sometimes called “minor” or “marginal” when gathering and reproducing significant shares of social capital, they have influenced remarkably in founding and consolidating a cultural field associated with recreation of history and modern museography, which is still absolutely valid today.