CONTENTS

FOREWORD

- Museology: New Focuses / New Challenges
Mário Canova Moutinho

- The Creation Process of a Local Museum
Fernando João Moreira

- On the concept of the public: the local museum's case
Fernando João Moreira

- Museums and quality, from the concept of the museum that carries out functions to the museum that provides services
Isabel Victor

- Thinking Museology Today
Judite Santos Primo

- The Importance of Local Museums in Portugal
Judite Santos Primo

- The museological Process: exclusion criteria
Maria Célia Teixeira Moura Santos

- Museology as a Pedagogy for Heritage
Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno

- Museological Action's Main Fields
Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno

- Memory and Power: two movements
Mário de Souza Chagas

- Informal Museology
Mário Canova Moutinho

- The construction of the Museological Object
Mário Canova Moutinho