Documentary Sources in the Reinvention of La Salle Multidisciplinary Museum

Abstract

The importance of museums as sources of pedagogical resources is not strange to the work of Lasallian community worldwide. This is reflected in the extensive network of Lasallian museums and archivists that exists internationally, each of them with documents and collections that house their own history. This is the case of La Salle Multidisciplinary Museum (Lima, Peru), a museum with a long history that was reinvented in 2021, in order to continue the pedagogical work of the Lasallian community, now significantly renewed and complemented through the research of each assets that compose its extensive collections.
Thus, this article explains the first years of this museum and the context in which it was founded, its evolution and how the museum is finally reflected in defined concepts, remodeled spaces and scientific and management tools. This with the objective of understand the process of formation of the museum and the actions taken that allow us to continue with the legacy that the Brothers of the Christian Schools of La Salle started in 1937 and that today allows us to show the results and list the tasks outlined in favor of research, conservation, preservation and dissemination of cultural and natural heritage.