FROM INVISIBILITY TO INFORMATION: Museological documentation of three-dimensional objects from popular culture
Document and information. Musealization. Popular culture
It is approached the process of transformation from invisibility to visibility of the three-dimensional objects of popular culture that despite being visible in its physical state, there is hidden information that is not contextualized in the information treatment process, causing limitation of informational potentialities. In this sense, the aim of this research is to promote a reflection on three-dimensional objects of popular culture and its transformation into a document, having, in the musealization process, elements that allow to identify and elucidate visible and invisible aspects and to value the heritage from material realities and memories not yet evidenced. As a methodological support we resorted to the Biography of objects, for presenting subsidies to record and make visible the largest possible number of information based on the trajectory of cultural assets and a whole context still unknown. In this perspective, we used the Maria dos Bichos Collection inserted in the NUPPO (Núcleo de Pesquisa e Documentação da Cultura Popular) from the Paraíba Federal University (UFPB) to meet and ratify our thesis. We support this investigation in the Symbolic Systems of Objects for the understanding of the attribution of values, senses, meanings and conventions granted to cultural vestiges, people and situations based on social and cultural relations and expose the hidden to the materiality of tangible things. Therefore, the research allowed to produce information from revealed memories that transcend the visual expository narratives of the objects. Thus, we know and preserve stories and memories of people, the institution and the regional culture.