Zagreb: University of Zagreb - Faculty of Architecture, 2015. In CULTURAL HERITAGE ‒ POSSIBILITIES FOR SPATIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. The FM pieces seem to embody that conclusion (and the idea that anyone could be a Heritage “agent”). This raises a few questions to which answers don’t strike as consensual: Is historical memory short? Is Heritage a political action production rather than a community’s natural appropriation? Is a living or practical, non-Institutional (sedimented) Heritage an element more interesting/less “repulsive” than a historical and ancient, Institutional one? Do we reject power when we identify it despite the fact that it acts to create our Identity? Participants and visitors often initially distrust of the academic information provided, but despite all, the outcome is usually a notion that Heritage is a built upon outside driven construct, not a simple process of a “community’s” own identity crystallization via ancientness and custom. When analysing the whole of the FM collection, one element stands out: although the ancientness of the city is proved, having monuments dating over 1000 years and having been the city of work of one of the best Portuguese renaissance painters, the vast majority of creations relate to the 19th and 20th centuries and a significant number of creations are linked (direct or indirectly) to the work of one key politician of the first half of the 1900 hundreds. Nevertheless, the FM uses those creations not to mislead the visitors, but to introduce State of the Art questions or answers – of academic provenience – that the general public/community wouldn’t have contact with otherwise. The Fake Museum (FM) is an on going museum project that started in 2012 in Viseu (Portugal) and is built upon the premise of Simulacrum (a “what if some historical reference had been different from what the recorded History conveys?” line of thought) in order to invite authors to create “contemporary artefacts” that develop from any given Viseu related historical reference they choose, using a fictional narrative to contextualize them and give them Heritage like traits.
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