DA ANÁLISE MICROSCÓPICA PARA AS VITRINES DE UM MUSEU: A FORMAÇÃO DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL DAS CIÊNCIAS NAS DEPENDÊNCIAS DA ESCOLA DE MINAS DE OURO PRETO

Abstract

This work has as its main field of study the Cultural Heritage of Science and Technology and aims to study the trajectory of the scientific collections present in the Museum of Science and Technique of the School of Mines of the Federal University of Ouro Preto (EMOP). The set of objects that make up part of this collection comes from the process of formation and consolidation of the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, inaugurated by Claude Henri Gorceix, in 1876. It was decided to initially bring in this work the formation and institutionalization of the largest collection cataloged at the School of Mines of the Federal University of Ouro Preto: the mineralogy collection. In the development of this work, the course of the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto, its foundation and relationship with the first musealization process institutionally detected in the 1930s was considered. Subsequently, the formation and expansion of the collection, which gave rise to to the Museum of Science and Technique of the UFOP School of Mines, in 1997. In this context, an attempt was made to cross-reference information between the objects that make up the collection with the documentation found in the process of research and survey of sources. It can be observed that the formation of scientific collections at EMOP contributed to the teaching of engineering in higher education in Brazil and consequently to the recognition of these objects as a cultural asset.