Between the years of 2003 and 2009 the History Museum Abilio Barreto (MHAB), at Belo Horizonte, formulated a policy of collections dedicated to increase the range of objects to be comprehended as museum artifacts. Considering the urban space as memory support , the museum promoted museum interventions, in which the history ofcity places was narrated through panels housed in display cases made of steel and glass with a concrete base, designed to integrate (and communicate with) it. Addressing here the last of these projects, I will consider the experience of musealization of the place, a private grange that would be claimed by residents to become a city park and receive a cultural center. Crossing the material obtained in field studies with archival research, and contrasting everyday life and official records, the survey resulted in an exhibition that addresses the configuration of the place in its dynamics and complexity, as an area disputed by different actors in different historical contexts.
Urban history; museum interventions; place; city; social moviments
