Cultural practices and territorial visibility Experiences from a community museum in Buenos Aires

Abstract

Community museums are characterized by focusing on three pillars: the community that carries out the project, the territory in which it is located and the heritage that it defends. Since the second half of the 20th century, this type of museums has been promoted throughout Latin America, representing the identity and culture of different communities, as opposed to traditional museums focused on a homogenizing discourse.

This article focuses particularly on the cultural activities of the Isla Maciel Community Museum carried out by the neighbors of this quarter of the town of Avellaneda. It analyzes how their itinerant exhibitions, chats, workshops, congresses, photographic exhibitions, and tourist tours are proposed with the goal of making visitors learn about the memory, culture, and identity of Isla Maciel. This research aims to investigate the ways in which this community museum, through its heritage, revels the territory in which it is located with the aim of de-stigmatizing the people who inhabit it.