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The Museology
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.
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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.
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