Documentação museológica: inventário do acervo do Museu do Trem do Piauí

Abstract

The Piauí Train Museum was created with the mission of preserving the memory of the railway development period on the coast of Piauí. The building that houses its collection is part of the historic and scenic set of the city of Parnaíba, registered at the federal level by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (IPHAN). The institution, located in the Station Square, keeps several pieces from the time of operation of the Central Railway of Piauí - EFCP, such as: Telephone equipment, workers' helmets, clothes, station bells, stenographers, locomotive lights, wall clocks, Photos, documents, furniture and other objects that are found on the premises of the museum. The cultural equipment was installed and inaugurated on August 15, 2002, having a complex that starts in the maneuvering yard, where is Locomotive 29, to the building where the passenger station in Parnaíba operated. However, since this institution does not comply with several recommendations of the Brazilian Institute of Museums (IBRAM) and the rules of law 11904/2009 (Statute of Museums) related to the creation of museums, this work provides an inventory of the entire collection of the museum, With the cataloging of their pieces, marking of numbering in them, as well as the creation of individual cataloging sheets for each one, and also the preparation of a booklet with documentation guidelines in museums, so that in the future the institution can Be registered in IBRAM, and may enjoy all the rights of a museum so registered.