Visita ao museu - visit to the museum

Fonte:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW8RLAdOKc4

And,a propos of the museum and some other connected ideas...
Modern western civilization is based on a dichotomy that is, by no means, universal: the “stratigraphic” notion of a universal “nature” over which the particularities of the artificial realities, invented by humans (“culture”), extends. In this sense, we could characterize our “culture” as obsessed with “culture”, a reified concept and ultimately, an important capital (value). Some even said that “culture” is the religion of our laic society. It is intimately tied to consumption, tourism, and therefore to circulation (of goods and people).
Heritage is another concept that stands at the very heart of modernity. It is the other face of “progress”, or, to use the updated version of it, of development. Heritage is everything that has became obsolete, useless, and so it needs to have a place for contemplation (cultural and tourist consumption), be it a small “container” (local museum) or a huge space (a thematic park, for instance). Indeed, “the museum”, in all its forms, is the central visible device of modernity and it is intrinsically tied to the general commodification of life.
Landscape is a portion of terrestrial space to be seen from a distance; it is a view, connected to painting and to the idea of transforming the two-dimensional canvas into a “window of the world” through the laws of perspective. It is implicit in the notion of landscape an idea of detachment from the land as a place of labour, as a world when people as immersed. The landscape presupposes someone’s contemplation, and through this idea it is connected with “culture”, “tourism” and the nostalgia of remembrance.
Finally archaeology is based in the idea that we may extract time – i. e., an history of landscapes – from the superficial observation and the “anatomic dissection” of the terrain.
All these concepts form an assemblage which is only understandable within a frame of modern ontology and its paradoxes: at the some time to transform, to discard, to do differently, to innovate, and, on the other hand, to conserve, to store, to accumulate and to retrieve “information”. The danger of (individual and collective) “memory” turning into a sot of hallucinatory process of search is obvious. As in psychoanalysis, we discovered the depth of things and, at the same time, we are obsessed to take them to the surface, often driven by a desire of ontological and ecological “equilibrium”.

voj 2007