Resumen de La invención de la colección museográfica en la producción de significado
The result of the research that is published in this essay proposes to consider the museographic collection as the minimal unit of sense that can affect our idea of the Past. Between the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth centuries, from the forms of exhibition of the cabinet or the gallery to those of the Natural History and Archeology Museum, the museographic collection turned the physical world and History into objects of knowledge to such extent that, nowadays, the public museum appears as a social place for knowledge. The "museumification" of life consists in a social process observes objects as representations. The author exposes his thesis in three main sections. In the first one, "The Notion of the Museographic Collection", he develops a wide theoretical perspective in which he shows how the collection can build meaning. He uses resources that belong to Etnography, Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology, in order to demonstrate the complexity of the concept of "museographic object". In the second part, he discusses some problems related to the traditional historical periods, where he points out the relativity of the chronological cuts between the Middle Ages and Modernity. Finally, through concrete examples, he discusses the way in which the museographic collectionism produces meaning in Social Sciences, History and the Arts. This is how the author concludes that the museographic collection, limited since the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries to the traditional representation of the Old Regime and the scholastic observation criteria, changes with the consolidation of public interest in knowledge within a wide memory secularization context. The blend of museographic collectionism with modern times results in a very powerful strength.
