Museus das rexistências: potencializando histórias para adiar o fim do mundo

Abstract

The article presents the Existances Museumsproject, which was awarded in the Reimagining Museums for Climate Actioncompetitionpromoted by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and waspart of the cultural events that made up COP 26, held in November 2021 in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. On display at the Glasgow Science Center betweenJuly and November 2021, the project proposedto radically rethink the role of museums in the face of the challenges posed by climate change. Therefore, it consideredthe colonialist character of museums, environmental racism and, from this, reflects on how community museums could constitute anetwork of ecological resistance by sharing histories and cosmological heritage of communities that have resisted, for centuries, to the extractivist and genocidal onto-epistemology imposed on African and Amerindian peoples by European colonial expansion.