A trajetória de uma construção patrimonial: a tradição doceira de Pelotas e antiga Pelotas na constituição do Museu do Doce da Universidade Federal de Pelotas.

Abstract

The research developed here sought to understand the motivations that lead to the musealization of the sweet of Pelotas, and the choice of the House of Councilor Maciel, House 08, as its headquarters, to indicate the forces and interests, institutional and political, that managed the process and defined the condition of this museum. Through exploratory research with survey of documentary sources and testimonials of people involved in planning the construction of the Museu Brasileiro do Doce, we can see that the choice of this house is not a random act, the Associação de amigos do Museu Brasileiro do Doce and the City Hall, but it is the result of a policy of valorization of the local cultural heritage as a form of social and economic development. Analyzing this memory institutionalization movement is of great importance to understand how these processes are conducted by local groups and acting by IPHAN, in the consolidation of local choices as national heritage. Therefore, a critical view of this process is necessary, showing the trajectory of decisions and practices regarding material and immaterial heritage and the discourses inherent to these actions. The two assets of the city were associated with the material, represented by the house, the property that is one of the first examples of eclectic architecture to be listed in Brazil, with an important set of integrated goods that represent a way of life of families linked to production of charque in the nineteenth century in the city, and the immaterial, by the tradition of sweets that at the time of choosing the headquarters, had not yet its registration as Brazilian intangible heritage, but had already begun the work of inventory.