O Instituto Butantan e seus lugares de memória

Abstract

This Research Project aims to identify possible Places of Memory, spaces where the collective memory of a group is sedimented, created at the Butantan Institute (IBu) during the period of the military dictatorship. It focuses on the political and economic situation of the IBu, the crises and internal tensions that led to the evasion of researchers, which tarnished the image of the institution in public opinion, and the movements of the early 1980s centered on the construction of the Historical Museum, in the process of registration of the Butantan Institute’s area by Condephaat and in the naming of the streets of Butantan Institute. From the perspective of archival documentation and material culture, it is intended to advance both in understanding the circumstances that led to the construction of these places, and in understanding the processes to materialize such places in the institution.