Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

This paper exposes the process of acquisition of the Mevibo’s collection as a community museum in 2014, in which the glass masters and residents of the locality of San Cristóbal in Bogotá participated. For its realization the documentary collection of the museum was consulted and the pieces exhibited were observed. The collection’s acquisition experience is unique because it was proposed as a strategy to involve the community in the creation of the museum. Each piece collected and exhibited gives an account of the glass craft related to the history of the participants and of the locality, in which factories of glass and other construction materials were developed to build the city. In this way, the ordinary or everyday objects sheltered in the museum acquire the role of intermediaries to convey the importance of this sector to the city, activate the glass craft knowledge to manufacture objects, exalt the work of those who practice the techniques, and encourage the transfer of knowledge to prevent its disappearance.