Art and devotion: considerations on the “Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero”

Abstract

This article is based on a master’s research entitled The Living Museum of Padre Cícero and its Educational Project, which is being developed with the Post-Graduate Program in Arts - PPGARTES of the Federal Institute of Ceará. In a broad sense, we carried out a reflection on the exhibition configuration of the museums, in the condition of educational space, from the investigation about the Educational Project of the “Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero”, institution located in the city of “Juazeiro do Norte – CE”. The guiding question of the research is to problematize the space of the museum, understood as an institution of non-formal education, contemplating and discussing all the instances of its educational project. Taking as reference theoretical studies by researchers Ana Mae Barbosa, Rejane Coutinho, Maria Isabel Roque and Carla Padró Puig, we established relationships between the concepts of “museum education” and the museum project in question, identifying the place that educational actions occupy in its institutional project. Considering the dynamics of contemporaneity, we reflect on the pertinence of the conception of the exhibition project of the “Museu Vivo do Padre Cícero”, which was idealized almost two decades ago, remaining faithful to its original project, despite the new curatorial tendencies.