Um projeto para reestruturar o museu histórico da imigração japonesa no Brasil

Abstract

The Historical Museum of Japanese Immigration in Brazil (MHIJ) was created in 1978. The Museum initial project was elaborated under direction of Tadao Umesao, japanese anthropologist and museum expert. For the time, it was a modern and advanced plan. But, unfortunately, it was not implanted in its fundamental points. Past 17 years (1995), the situation became worse. The permanent display made old with time, futhermore museum study advanced at the world in this period. In this paper, I discuss the necessity of MHIJ structure change. It is important to come back to Umesao principles and incorporate the museum modern know-how. Whit this aim, I applied the historical method, showing the museum evolution in the history. I concluded that the MHIJ actually need change its structure and has to widen its performance range, if it want better brazilian society insertion.