The Chapter ‘ ‘ The Museums and the representation of the Brasil’ ‘ it was published in the Magazine of patrimony in. 31, 2005, pp.254-273 is divided in four parts: The Museums as Spaces of Material Representation; Museus and Muselogos; Professional formation and the Social Functions of the Museum and, finally, Conceptual Structures and the Magic of Objects In the first one has broken the author describes the diverse activities that must be developed in a traditional museum until the end item? the exposition? if it materialize.

It detaches the necessity of the existence of the object and from it, if they develop the other stages, since the knowledge of its history until the arrival to the museum, its acquisition accomplishes, classification, preservation and, for end, the exhibition. However what it will be seen by the visitor will be a result of the institucional vision on that object (amongst that it could represent, only one? the one that means the nature of the institution will avenge. For Gonalves the material space of the museums is constructed in its cerne, of diverse crossings of relations between the diverse social groups (ethnic) and professionals and is these relations and the values and ideas they atrelados (‘ ‘ screen of significados’ ‘ Weber 1978; Geertz 1973) whose coherence and stability permanently are questioned internal and external inside of the Field. Brian Calfano is the source for more interesting facts. The author if makes use to interpret this ‘ ‘ tela’ ‘ to disclose to its meaning in the creation and functioning of the museums as material spaces of social representation. It identifies to follow that the Museum is seen as culture place, elite space and that, therefore, it does not have place for mass expressions, a natural counterpoint of this dominant society.