(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-08-16) Delgado, Bernarda
This article summarises the experience in the management of cultural heritage lived in the Museo Túcume, which was based on the scientific research undertaken at the pyramids since 1989, and which continued with the establishment of our museum in 1992. The work of involving the community throughout 31 years of uninterrupted labour was led by criteria of social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability. The Management Plan, which is based on a situational diagnostic of the town plus the conceptualisation of our labour and that of the museum within the paradigm of Social Museology, allowed us to bring scientific knowledge over to the people, learn from popular wisdom, and—with the establishment of the Tucume Ecomuseum—to encourage citizen participation in the pursuit of the sustainable preservation of both the cultural and natural heritage.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-08-04) Alexandrino Ocaña, Grace
For over ten years, Peru has seen the rise of groups of citizens who want to take over the responsibility for the safeguard[1]ing of the nation’s pre-colonial cultural heritage. Citizen participation in the safeguard of heritage has not been much implemented despite its inclusion in the legal regulations laid down by the Peruvian government. Even more, Peru’s authorities and cultural experts still favour a material-centred preservation outlook over the social use and the interac[1]tion between contemporary societies and the built heritage. Based on an extensive ethnographic and archival work, I here characterize what citizen participation in the management of pre-Colonial structures has been like since the estab[1]lishment of the Ministry of Culture; describe the way in which citizen participation has developed ever since cultural heritage grassroots organizations appeared; and discuss the potential that citizen participation holds for the attainment of a more sustainable management of heritage.
