Construction of the museal space: science, education and sociality in the genesis of the Goeldi Museum’s Zoobotanical Park (1895-1914)

ABSTRACT The article analyses the construction of the Zoobotanical Park of the Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi during the administration of its idealizers, Emilio Goeldi (1895-1907) and Jacques Huber (1907-1914). Although the park is now an organic area and spreads across a whole block in the center of Belem (PA), Brazil, it was conceived as two distinct annexes of the museum, the zoo and the botanical garden, each located on opposite sides of the institution’s main building. These annexes were created from the expropriation, transformation, and resignification of lands, buildings and vegetables that already existed in the place. Having as starting points the concept of museality and the issues underlying the creation and functioning of museums, the text is developed in four narratives - communicational and educational, scientific, leisure and sociality, domestic -, which we understand as matrices that shaped and organized the museal space. These narratives allowed us to study the genesis of institutional identity, which, in its essence, is perpetuated to the present day.

摘要 本文探析了帕拉恩塞埃米利奥·盖尔迪博物馆（Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi）动植物园在其创立者埃米利奥·盖尔迪（1895-1907年在职）与雅克·于贝尔（1907-1914年在职）的管理时期的建设脉络。尽管如今该园区已成为一片有机整体，横跨巴西帕拉州贝伦市市中心一整座街区，但最初它被规划为该博物馆的两处独立附属区域：动物园与植物园，分别坐落于博物馆主建筑的两侧。这两处附属区域依托场地原有土地、建筑与植被，通过征收、改造与意义重构打造而成。本文以博物馆性（museality）的概念，以及博物馆创建与运行相关的核心议题为研究起点，从传播教育、科学研究、休闲社交与日常管理四个叙事维度展开论述——我们将这四个维度视为塑造并组织该博物馆空间的核心框架。通过这些叙事维度，本文得以探析该机构身份认同的起源，而其核心内涵至今仍得以延续。