Um lugar de memória da estrada de ferro: o centro de preservação da história ferroviária do Rio Grande do Sul - 1980/1990

Abstract

This theme aims to analyze the discourse produced by Rio Grande do Sul Preservation Center of Railway Heritage in the 1980s. This work came from the need to develop a study on the cultural heritage linked to the Train Museum, from the shortcomings found by examining the documentation relevant to the subject. As such, Train Museum, formerly São Leopoldo Railway Station, became our object of research, as it housed the Preservation Center of Railway History of our State. The research is based theoretically on cultural history and the methodology on the study of the Heritage Preservation Program is concentrated in two focuses: documentary research and research that covers the sources of witness in a microanalysis exercise. With these sources, we intend to analyze the patrimonial policies around the Program of Preservation of the Historical Patrimony, its objectives, its interests and what it tried to preserve of the rail patrimony from Rio Grande do Sul, and moreover checking the trajectory of Program in our State, in that decade. Therefore, this work intends to contribute to the studies on the constitution from gaucho rail heritage and to the discussions about relations between political power, cultural heritage and railway memory.