have fallen two stories relevant to the world of museology. Or at least that aroused the attention and reflection. On the one hand the Journal of New Spain of Asturias has brought the news that "Langreo commission approves the project Tragsa Samuño Ecomuseum ( http://www.lne.es/secciones/noticia.jsp?pRef=2008091000_37_673835__Nalon -Langreo-commission-approves-Tragsa-project-Ecomuseum ). The other news is the appearance of the awaited project to build a spectacular museum that will honor the victims of 11-S in New York ( http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2008/09/09/vidaurbana/ 1220981962_531824.html )
We find two ways to museology. In the first case we speak of an eco-museum, an institution which, in essence, part of the community matrix to use its assets rather than for aesthetic contemplation but to strengthen its identity (and community), and social performance, cultural and off economically than they. In the second case we speak of a museum to contemplate which is part of the spectacle of the great urban museums and, now in its presentation, has been marked by the concepts of aesthetic spectacle. However, two museologies, two radically different ways of understanding a museum but the two with the same purpose: to preserve an intangible heritage. In the first case to preserve the identity of a local population. An identity that is symbolic because it is the people who feel one of a series of material artifacts or a particular landscape. Heritage has no value in itself, is the human being (which I use and live with him) who inflicted the net asset value. In the second case we speak of keeping feelings, emotions, sadness and melancholy.
Apart from these qualifications is interesting the way they are going to perform the work to build these "containers" of memory.
The permanent exhibition has been commissioned to Tragsa ( http://www.tragsa.es/ ), A publicly held company that employs no more than 2000 employees and over their projects eventually hire about 11,000 workers. Tragsa born in 1977 and has the objective is to design and construction of infrastructure and equipment required for modernization and improvement of agricultural production systems, technologies for better water management, forestry and conservation activities and improvement of natural environment services for the protection and enjoyment of natural areas and the marine environment. Navigating the website does not appear a strong history of museological infrastructure, but less so in ecomuseology. Bearing in mind that start ecomuseums a pedagogy of social awareness and practice of freedom in the style of Paulo Freire, and community social action by the person who will manage this heritage: the community. An eco-museum is a living thing, not a building is not an infrastructure. An eco-museum is an equation where Heritage, Community Planning and complement. Do not know the museum and museum project, but we know that they have not called ecomuseológico project.
For the second case we have the debate between the content and the mainland. We live in society, the culture of simulation. New York will build a museum that is more spectacular, or so it seems, what will house: a spirit of support, solidarity and practical Yorkers who developed the day of the tragedy.
We can not ignore that we are in the Anglo-Saxon culture and entertainment mecca of finance, but it can not cover up the true essence of what is to be preserved in the museum. The museum is a medium, the exposition half, the end is coming and make public relevant to what you're getting.