La aplicación de la Museología Social en España: desafíos para su implementación en el sureste de la Comunidad de Madrid

• Main Authors: Óscar Navajas Corral, Julián González Fraile
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2018-12-01
• Series: e-cadernos ces
• Subjects: New Museology; participatory processes; Rivas Vaciamadrid; Social Museology; Spanish Civil War
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/eces/3722

New Museology was a part of museology responsible for enhancing the social function of museums as tools for the development of communities and social transformation. In the present article, this field of knowledge is presented as the working methodology for a territorial space and a concrete community. The paper reflects on the work done in a local municipality, Rivas Vaciamadrid (Madrid, Spain) and citizen voluntarism, channeled through the association, for the recovery and enhancement of the vestiges of the Battle of Jarama during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). This endeavor aimed at building a memory environment able to generate synergies for cultural, social and economic development.