This paper examines the time in relation to the place and the object in the museums of science and technology, presenting different theoretical approaches from a physical and social perspective. This contribution analyses spontaneous speech collected from the public in the Museum of Arts and Crafts, which exhibits historical objects related to the world of work, techniques and crafts of the Brazilian pre-industrial period. The analysis of the speech using the methodology of the Discourse of the Collective Subject allowed categories to emerge: the monoculture of linear time and the ecology of temporalities, both based on the Critique of Metonymic Reason. The central ideas highlight the loss of creativity and identity with the object in the linear time setting of industrial production, as well as the standardization reflected in the way of life, which raises the crisis of a dialectical conflict that seeks to combine different time rhythms.
Space-time; Museum of science and technology; Museum of arts and crafts; Monoculture of linear time; Ecology of temporalities