Políticas públicas para os museus no Brasil: reflexos e anseios da museologia social.

Abstract

This article, based on the analysis of the process of conception and implementation of the National Museum Policy in Brazil, established by the Ministry of Culture in 2003, aims to describe how the field of social museology and community museums has been incorporated into the agenda of this specific public policy. To this end, it demonstrates how fundamental was the performance of certain social actors, especially intellectuals and academics, holders of strong symbolic power in the social game of the participatory process of building the foundations of this policy and its developments.