Museum of inconfidence and the marks of education in the visitors’s books (1945-1965)

Abstract

This article originated from a research, whose main objective was to identify, quantify and analyze, in the Museum of the Inconfidência, located in the city of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, the presence of self - declared school subjects. For this purpose, oficial letters sent by teachers and school principals, directed to the directors of the Museum, and the books with the signatures of the visitors, privileged sources in this research, were used. It is an original source still little explored by research in the field of History and History of Education. The period defined for this study comprised the years 1945, when the museum was inaugurated, and 1965, when a new political phase began, with the establishment of the dictatorship, in which there are changes in cultural discourses, in general, and educational, in particular. The analyzes were made from the quantitative surveys of self-declared visitors to students and teachers, or linked to educational institutions. Thus, the predominance of a greater number of visitors connected to private and religious institutions and a significant number of visitors to military schools was observed, while the presence of the the presence of subjects connected to the public school, even those geographically close, was very rarefied.