Collections and Knowledge: Heritage Building at the National Museum of Colombia and the Mining School (1823-1830)
The National Museum of Colombia was created in 1823 as a natural history museum along with a Mining School. The museum’s opening was registered by the official gazette (Gaceta de Colombia) with a depiction of some of the objects there exhibited. This paper argues the scientific ethos of the museum a...
| Autor Principal: | Rodríguez Prada, María Paola |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Instituto Carlos Arbeláez Camacho para el patrimonio arquitectónico y urbano
2017
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revApuntesArq/article/view/23426 |
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The National Museum of Colombia was created in 1823 as a natural history museum along with a Mining School. The museum’s opening was registered by the official gazette (Gaceta de Colombia) with a depiction of some of the objects there exhibited. This paper argues the scientific ethos of the museum and of the mining school, which far from being those of a curiosities’ cabinet, they tend to a dynamic process of knowledge-building for the natural history and scientific specialized fields, as suggested by the known collecting, description and research practices carried out during the founding years. From primary sources unknown by traditional historiography, we discuss the disciplinary training of the people involved in the founding of the museum, their ‘mental equipment’ as well as their professional practices which forged the museum’s and the school’s scientific character. The review of the few remaining pieces of evidence of work held at the museum and the school, allow us to inquire about the development of science at the dawn of the Republic, as to speculate about the basis of a museum heritage that still lasts nowadays.
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