Documentação museológica do acervo de xilogravura da Fundação Hansen Bahia

Abstract

Museum documentation aims to record, safeguard and disseminate the production of knowledge of any collection belonging to a museum institution. However, despite having a unique relevance, the museological documentation is still neglected in some institutions. This occurs, because documentation is work that happens behind the scenes and many sometimes, it does not occur due to a lack of infrastructure, personnel or the accumulation of innumerable functions that the museologist professional performs. This final work course aims to document ten works from the São Paulo Collection, referring to to the woodcut collection of the Hansen Bahia Foundation. The methodological choice was action research, since this method provides a total involvement of the researcher with the object of study. It is necessary to build knowledge related to museological documentation, so that the Fundação Foundation itself Hansen Bahia and other institutions reflect on their professional practices.