MUSEU VIVO DO ASSENTAMENTO SUMARÉ I: uma experiência que tem mantida viva a memória de luta de uma comunidade de assentados do interior paulista

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to analyze the role that the living museum of the Sumaré I settlement has played in preserving the memory of struggle of a community of settlers of the MST in the interior city of Sumaré/SP, within the perspective of a social museology. For that, we used the qualitative methodology, doing field work, with unstructured interviews. We collected the testimonies of seven settlers and of a teacher and social movement activist who provides an important assistance in the instrumentalization of the community for the operationalization of the museum. In the study, we were able to observe, among other things, that the living museum is the very story of the struggle for a piece of land and a memory device to connect young people in the struggle. The living museum that defends itself is not a fixed space, but the historical and collective movement of men and women who relate to each other and to nature. It is alive, because it is life itself forged in the struggle of the past, recreating itself in future generations.