Viaje histórico a los 450 años de vida franciscana Chiloé, Chile.

Abstract

Museums are more than a physical structure or traditional exhibition venues; they are meeting places for discovering the beauty of knowledge or the horrors of humanity, such as memorial or Holocaust museums. Today's museums exhibit ideas and concepts, not just objects (Guisasola and Morentin, 2007). In this sense, this integrative final project (hereinafter TFI) implemented a museological script in the San Francisco de Castro Church, a site declared a national monument and World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Therefore, it was developed in a space of cultural importance, defined as a place of outstanding universal value that belongs to the common heritage of humanity (UNESCO, 1972). Furthermore, the Franciscan order, which owns this building, has been present on the island of Chiloé for more than 450 years, which also entails four centuries of history and representation. This TFI report describes the museological script project carried out over two weeks at the San Francisco de Castro Church, where the various archaeological and historical artifacts found in this religious space were valued and ideas and concepts explained. However, it was through professional practice that it became clear that there are few artifacts in the church and parish that reflect the more than four centuries of Franciscan presence in Chiloé and Nahuel Huapi. A large part of the archaeological resources were destroyed by the various natural disasters and fires that affected the church, leading to its reconstruction on several occasions. Other artifacts are distributed throughout various museums throughout the country.