The Museum of the Portuguese Language - Brazil

             The Museum of the Portuguese Language - MPL is a reference in cultural diffusion of this language, in Brazil, as intangible cultural heritage. Housed in a building built in the nineteenth century to become the main axis of modal railway Sao Paulo, Luz Station, revitalizes and listed as historical heritage, after intensive restoration activity, now also receive this cultural project. The museum is receptivity and public recognition and achieves high levels of visitation. In these circumstances, the research aims to scrutinize the dynamics of communicative interaction in the MPL, according to their interfaces, quoting the relationship between the visitor and their acquis, constituted in this case by technological installations and interactive media. 

The contributions of methods such as interview, the application of data collection instrument in questionnaire format and qualitative analysis, research documents and museum publications, the notes in a field diary, foment techniques that incorporate the ethnographic methodology participant observation, structural axis and investigative support to this project, which also founded the reflections built in the field of cultural sciences. The reporting period, between July 2012 and November 2015, presupposes a context analysis, to consider the social situation, political and cultural repercussions for the museum's creation in 2006, and distinctive references between Brazilian culture and the Portuguese, which also permeate the language as a curatorial project component. Finally, understand the dynamics between the acquis and technological instalations, and this imbricate, the proposed model of interactivity in line with visitor expectations, sets the core’s.

Doctoral thesis autor Dr Odair Marques da Silva