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07.06.05
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BNDES destines R$ 2 million to the Artes e Ofícios Museum in Minas Gerais
· Museum will show the history of preindustrial work in Brazil
· Project involves restoration of Belo Horizonte's central region
Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social [BNDES] will sponsor with R$ 2 million, in the ambit of the Rouanet Law (Law 8.313/91), the cultural projects related to the implementation of the Artes e Ofícios Museum [MAO], in Belo Horizonte (State of Minas Gerais).
The Museum's assets will show the history of preindustrial work in Brazil, with documents on popular procedures, works and crafts. The funds will be transferred to Instituto Cultural Flávio Gutierrez, which has presented the projects related to implementation of MAO.
The objective of the project is to provide the population with the material recording of how to do each craft, the techniques and knowledge accumulated and transferred through generations. In addition to the material historical assets, the implementation of MAO is related to "incorporeal assets" under an oral memory recording and by the preservation of the knowledge and works traditions for several types of crafts.
The pieces of MAO's assets are a result of over 30 years of researches and acquisitions by Ângela Gutierrez, president of Instituto Cultural Flávio Gutierrez, and will be donated to Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional [IPHAN], linked to the Ministry of Culture. Consequently, MAO will become part of the Brazilian System of Museums.
The Artes e Ofícios Museum will be installed in the building of Central do Brasil Station, at Praça Rui Barbosa, downtown Belo Horizonte. The Central do Brasil Station was built in 1922, in neoclassic style. In the past, it was the axis of the city urbanization, what makes it nowadays a symbolic place for the population.
In addition to the area for MAO's permanent and temporary exposition, spaces are planned for technical reserve; restoration laboratory; building to receive children and educative service; and a professional formation and qualification center, mainly directed to craft works.
Jointly with the Artes e Ofícios Museum implementation, the project includes the restoration of Belo Horizonte's central region, recovering the degradation of an area around the old abandoned building of Central Station.
MAO will be integrated to the train and subway platform that crosses the two buildings and where 50 thousand people circulate daily. The passengers in transit at the platform may observe the exposition portion related to transport crafts, which will be turned to the platform and separated by a glass wall.
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