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.新博物馆的兴起，其核心背景之一便是在城市复兴（urban revitalization）进程中落地的博物馆项目。若此类倡议的初衷是为曾被视为“破败衰退”的区域赋予“新生”，则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，巴西先后推出多项城市更新提案与实践项目，本研究选取艺术与手工业博物馆（Museu de Artes e Ofícios，英文译名为Museum of Arts and Trades，简称MAO）的落地实施进程，及其与贝洛奥里藏特市中心部分区域的城市复兴进程之间的关联，作为本次研究的目标对象。