The concept of the new museology incorporated in 1997
is to respect and emphasize the architectonical spaces and support the
visual language of the colections by using expositive resources to explain
them in the best way. It was always important to keep the balance between
architecture and objects. The goal of the museology was never to be
protagonic but to get a plainess and moderate use of the sources to
be a discrete auxiliar wich emphasize the charm and modesty of the spaces
also the extraordinary worth of the colections.
The
new distribution of the objects tried to gather religious subjects,
wich tell stories about the most important episodes of catholiscism:
the Annunciation, the Birth of Jesus, the suffering and Death, the Resurection,
the Virgin´s assumption. After there are the most common advocations
of the christian iconography and wich were well accepted in american
territories. There are also halls wich order the colections acording
to their different possesions, such as religious ornaments, furniture,
daily life, Spanish American gold and silversmith.
The new Conception of the contemporary museums identify them not only
as a patrimony of the past, but also as a manifestation of culture's
daily life. That is how museology sensible to this need, add a space
dedicated just to the temporary expositions, in order to promote and
incentive the artistic manifestations in common with the contains of
the museum, and specially for the difussion of important traditions
of the folk's religious culture of Riobamba and the region.
