Ladislau Netto no Museu Nacional: Memória Institucional (1870-1893)

Abstract

This work assumes the management of Alagoas, botanist and scientist Ladislau Netto (1870-1893), as director, of the National Museum. In this sense, the theme concerns the mediation of management, information and knowledge at their intersections with the museum space. Its objective, in the broadest sphere, is to analyze the management of Ladislau Netto at the head of the National Museum, associating it to its consolidation as cultural and scientific equipment in Brazil, with a view to the production of academic knowledge. While the specific objectives aim to: examine biographical aspects of Ladislau Netto in the scope of memory production, political and scientific management; to place Ladislau Netto in view of the consolidation of the National Museum, as a museum and academic institution combining teaching, research and knowledge production; to identify mediation of information as an assumption of Information Science, in the management of Ladislau Netto. This research dialogues with Information Science, Cultural History and Museology, in order to place the botanist Ladislau Netto at the center of his contributions to institutional organization, a consequence of administrative reforms arising from the regulations of 1876, 1888 and 1892 The methodological procedures were based on surveys and analyzes of documents and bibliographies about Ladislau Netto and the National Museum, in which he found as a result the creation of the scientific journal Archives, in the implementation of competitions and public teaching courses, within the scope of the National Museum, as well as in the sponsorship of scientific expeditions in Brazil, with repercussions in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition, of 1882, and in the Universal and International Exhibition of Paris, in 1889. In this way, it is concluded that the actions established, under the management of Ladislau Netto, in scientific expeditions that subsidized the formation of the genuinely Brazilian collection, as well as part of the collections f o presented at the 1882 and 1889 Exhibitions, the flows and uses of scientific research through the magazine Arquivos, both evidenced as practices of mediation of information, as well as the implementation of public courses and rigor in public management through tenders, are presented as crucial in reaching the specific objectives established, also showing itself as an institutional administration of cultural practices that promote and promote the creation of conditions for the production of scientific and cultural knowledge in Brazil.