MUSEUM STRUCTURES AND URBAN CONTEXTS: CASE STUDY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION IN JOINVILLE (SC)

The context of this article is of a growing appreciation of museums, memorials centres, and exhibition spaces for urban planning, going beyond their inherent functions, especially cultural and educational ones. Its objective is to discuss interpretative criteria between museographic cultural facilities, the urban contexts in which they are inserted, and the possible implications arising from this relationship. The research adopts the bibliographic approach, the analysis and observation of museums and their different urban contexts in which they are implemented, and the case study with the National Museum of Immigration and Colonization in Joinville, Brazil. The investigation resulted in the definition of five typologies of implications arising from the relationships between museographic cultural facilities and urban contexts and the interpretative analysis of the case study, identifying the possible resulting implications. As a result, the analyses propose that the use of these interpretative criteria can improve the understanding about the museographic cultural facilities and their transformative potentials of the urban environment.