Exposições virtuais no isolamento: a memória institucional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais a partir dos acervos dos seus fundadores

Abstract

The UFMG Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1911 thanks to the persistent work of thirteen distinguished health personalities in Minas Gerais: Alfredo Balena, Antônio Aleixo, Aurélio Pires, Cícero Ribeiro Ferreira Rodrigues, Cornélio Vaz de Mello, Eduardo Borges Ribeiro da Costa, Ezequiel Caetano Dias, Honorato Alves, Hugo Furquim Werneck, Olyntho Deodato dos Reis Meirelles, Octávio Machado, Samuel Libânio and Zoroastro Rodrigues de Alvarenga. The Medicine Memory Center, the sector of the faculty responsible for safeguarding the personal archives of these founders, was contemplated and, in 2020, with a scholarship holder for the project “Personal archives and memory: heritage education in health history from the founders of the Faculty of Medicine of Bello Horizonte”. With the emergence of the pandemic and, consequently, the introduction of remote work, activities had to be adapted to the new context. Thus, from research on each founder, carried out in different databases and in the already digitized portions of the archives in Cememor's custody, it was possible to start a program of virtual exhibitions about the history of the college and its patrons to be displayed in the institutional profile “@cememormfufmg” on Instagram. This work intends to address, in addition to the challenges related to the resizing of the project's initial objectives, the necessary joint effort to equip the team with regard to the use of audiovisual content creation software and to discuss the strategies for disseminating documentary heritage in networks social.