Museums and urban revitalization: Museu de Artes e Ofícios and Praça da Estação in Belo Horizonte

One of the main conditions in which the birth of new museums is observed are the museums that are implemented during the urban revitalization process. If what is intended with these initiatives is to give “new life” to areas that were previously considered “degraded”, it is worth asking what role these institutions should play in these processes. In view of the fact that in Brazil, in the late twentieth century and in the beginning of the current century, several urban regeneration proposals and projects were developed, we selected the process of implementation of the Museu de Artes e Ofícios (Museum of Arts and Trades – MAO) as the target of the present investigation, as well as its connection with the urban revitalization process of part of the central region of the city of Belo Horizonte.

新博物馆的诞生往往与城市复兴进程深度绑定，其中一类核心场景即为在城市复兴进程中落地兴建的博物馆。倘若此类项目的初衷是为曾被判定为"破败衰退"的区域赋予"新生"，那么我们有必要探讨这类文博机构在该进程中应扮演的角色。鉴于20世纪末至本世纪初，巴西曾推出多项城市复兴提案与实践项目，本研究选取贝洛奥里藏特（Belo Horizonte）市中心部分区域的城市复兴进程中，艺术与手工业博物馆（Museu de Artes e Ofícios，简称MAO）的兴建过程及其与该复兴进程的关联作为研究对象。