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UN ¿NUEVO? PARADIGMA EN LOS MUSEOS HISTÓRICOS:¿CRISIS DE IDENTIDAD?Vilma Brondo; Mercedes Ferreyra; Silvana Lovay; Adriana Martínez;Paola Roldán; Georgina Vallero - ArgentinaAbstractThe world generated by the globalization let us to think about the existence of a newparadigm marked by the deep need of the mankind to recognize itself as a social andan individual being. The communications mediums and the process of globalizationexers its influence in the individuals and through them in the collective identity of thenations.The museums, and particularly the historical one, know this reality and assume withresponsibility the need to build a singpost which created a historical belonging’s sense.As a museum of social history, we recreate different historical sceneries –museologicalrepresentations- where, through a systematic investigation emerge and are highlightedthe protagonists and theirs goals and the role that they played in diverse historicalsocialmoments.In fact, the Museum Estancia Jesuítica de Alta Gracia is searching for a model thatlinks the museographic and the historical discourse, no “solo de los hechos ocurridos,sino también de sus relatos y sus prácticas comunicativas (not just a discourse of thepast facts, but also of the their accounts and their commutative practices).Based in Morales Moreno’s perspective about historic museographie, which is still now“... cimentada en concepciones historiográficas y pedagógicas provenientes delmundo liberal y positivista de fines del siglo XIX (... is still based on historiographic andpedagogical notions from the liberal and positivist world of the end of the 19 th century)”,our museum conceive the historical discourses as discourses which put the stress inthe past as process and where the identity not only amalgamate the multiple meaningsof the historical weave but also gave them a sense.The Estancia Jesuítica de Alta Gracia, nowadays a house – museum, is synthesis andtestimony of several races, mentalities, traditions of Europeans, Africans, aborigines,mestizos and Creoles. The cultural diversity mold their identity, an identity that didn’tremain static but, on the contrary, was enriched and fortified in the course of the timewith another social actors that lived in others historical periods.Having as a background a reality marked by a discredit of the past an the lack anbelonging, isn’t easy to built our identity. The construction of the identity, put us –museum’s specialists- continuously in test. Although we observe concern the called“inestabilidad identitaria (the instability of the identity)” -originated in the paradigm thatexist in this millennium- we consider this crisis as an element of transformation andchange and we are trying that the individuals and the social collective recognizethemself in the museum... “Al fin y al cabo, somos lo que hacemos para cambiar loque somos. La identidad no es una pieza de museo quitecita en la vitrina, sino siemprela asombrosa síntesis de las contradicciones nuestras de cada día (At last we are whatwe do, in order to change what we are. The identity isn’t a quiet museum’s objectexhibited in a glass showcase but the amazing synthesis of our daily contradictions)”.151