THE ARCHIVE AND ITS SOCIAL FUNCTION AT THE MUSEO PROVINCIAL HOGAR ESCUELA EVA PERÓN: AN EXPERIENCE IN UNIVERSITY OUTREACH

Mariana E. L. Acosta, María Luisa Benítez 1

Abstract

In Argentina, specifically in the province of Entre Ríos, the Eva Perón Foundation made a great contribution by creating, more than sixty years ago, the Hogar School in the city of Paraná, being an emblematic building of Argentine education in the mid-twentieth century. . For this reason, the provincial State managed in the first place, the declaration of Asset of Historical Interest - National Architectural the property where the educational social complex works and that was approved by national law 26,291. Second, provincial law 10,021 provides for the creation of the Eva Perón Home School Provincial Museum. Museums, as well as archives, are institutions at the service of the community, they safeguard cultural assets, objects and documents of historical value that tell the institutional and social history, contribute to forge and strengthen the identity of a society or culture. This work describes stages of a territorial intervention, reporting a situational diagnosis modality that contemplates the dialogic recovery of knowledge, in particular with members of the institution as well as community actors. It was an interdisciplinary approach that sought to respond to a specific problem of reality and the active participation of the different actors, offering a tour of the extensionist experience in the territory, in which the university was involved and achieved an effective intervention for the benefit of the community. Specifically, it is intended to publicize the social function that the archive fulfills in the Eva Perón Home School Provincial Museum. Because the documents stored in this cultural institution will help to reconstruct the institutional history, to legitimize the objects that make up the museum's heritage and to collaborate in its dissemination, thus building an identity space that bears witness to the local culture.