The Immigrant Memorial of St. Paul will no longer be managed by the Social Organization of Culture AAMI - Association of Friends of the Immigrant Memorial, currently Institute of Museum Memories and Identities - IMMI.
The Ministry of Culture has also decided to transfer the entire collection of documents from the Memorial to the Archives of the State of São Paulo.
The management agreement between the State Secretariat of Culture of the State of São Paulo and IMMI force for the last five years will not be renewed. Letter signed by Secretary Andrea Matarazzo addressed in our social organization determines that all activities, projects, partnerships and national and international commitments relating to the Immigrant Memorial including personnel management, are closed. Since December 20, 2010 all 40 officers, directors and advisors are dismissed. Another Social Organization of Culture we will replace the management of the Immigrant Memorial. The Secretariat provided a discreet and unnecessary public call for those interested in managing the Memorial for 6 months. Faced with the decision of the new Secretary, in principle, consider the possibility to compete, but gave up on the information that negotiations were already underway with the OS of the Football Museum. Why participate in a competition if legally we could have our contract extended?
It is public knowledge that no OS is most qualified to to manage our Immigrant Memorial. Our organization was described by then-Governor Geraldo Alckimin in 2004 given the legal proof of 3 years of work with the Memorial.
present to the Secretariat in October, Budget and Work Plan 2011 to 2014 prepared under the guidance of UPPM, national manager of our contract.
During the 5-year management agreement was very invested. For officials, remember that it is unnecessary to form a team overnight. The nature of museum work requires a thorough knowledge of the heritage and memory the institution. We invest in training, courses and research which makes the highly skilled staff and therefore its greatest asset.
30 years working in the museums, never saw the dismissal of an entire team in one fell swoop. In our OS I'm 5 years, but there are professionals who are in the Memorial for at least 15 years.
We are not a company that works for the project or event. We have no profit. Our qualifying was built to the equipment.
We are professionals and authorities in exercising their functions.
The non-renewal of our contract management involves serious damage to morale and a management team with proven technical and managerial quality that has been complying with all applicable legal and programmatic contracted with Pulp and all the demands in the Management Unit, with indexes quality level of the most developed of the Secretariat and museums whose accounts have been approved annually by the inspectors.
Our management at Memorial has won awards at major national and international level beyond the merely adequate.
In June 2005 the then aim Secretary Joao Batista de Andrade, the urgent need to restore the landmark building of the former guesthouse of Immigrants, tumbled by CONDEPHHAT in 1982, failing which, the State be attributed lack of negligence in its preservation, which was granted promptly. In June 2010 the memorial was closed to public visitation to the beginning of restoration works, which have been stalled since then.
The collection of documents for registration of immigrants under the custody of the Memorial was nominated for the UNESCO Memory of the World, in September 2009. The application of this initiative was OS, and approved the technical demonstration of our conservation by that body internationally.
Some of the actions interrupted by the closure of the contract:
1. Project name is already included in the OS, sponsored by BNDES for restoration of Lists of Passengers and Books Registration of Hospitality
2. Agreement with the CISEI of Genoa to scan the names of all the Italians moved into the state of São Paulo, with transfer of funds in euros;
3. Agreement with the Stock emigration from Galicia, to scan the names of all Spaniards entered in the State of São Paulo, with transfer of funds in euros;
4. Agreement with the Mormons for the digitization of approximately 3 million names in the registration forms for foreigners, without cost to the state;
5. Memorandum of intent signed with Museo del Mare in Genoa for the organization of exhibition and seminar in commemoration of 150 Unification of Italy, to be held within the Year of Italy in Brazil with the support of the Embassy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Brazil .
6. Memorandum of intent signed for the commemoration of 200 years of Chinese immigration in Brazil;
7. Memorandum of intent signed for the centenary of Dutch immigrants in Brazil;
8. Partnership with Arsenal of Hope for the implementation of various events, including the Feast of the Immigrant in 2011, sponsored by TV Globo - São Paulo;
9. Consolidated partnerships with virtually all the 70 communities of immigrants that settled in São Paulo and with the respective consulates.
10. Implementation of Strategic Plan for 2009 to 2013;
11. Sequence of performance of public utility supply of certified copies, certificates and statements given the general public, legal claims in post set up in the borough Mooca.
the past five years has begun a great work team in the implementation of administrative and technical procedures did not exist previously, create the area of \u200b\u200bmuseology; deployment table of temporality; completion of procedures for donation; partnerships with institutes studying national and international migratory movements; partnerships with universities, presentations of international exhibitions; establishment of research area; purchases of titles for the library, making it an essential reference on the subject. Additionally, we lead the creation of the Brazilian Network of Centres for Study of Migration and participate in the creation of the International Migration Museums Network led by UNESCO and IOM - http://www.migrationmuseums.org/ .
editorial work in producing an unprecedented, with the release of books like The Portuguese Presence in Sao Paulo, International Migration, Challenges for the XXI Century; Series Reflections on the workshops, the Portuguese Immigration, Immigrant Memorial Institutional; editions of textbooks on German immigration, English, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, The Immigrant Press: Press Trajectory of African Migration and Post-World War II. Were present in the publications of articles in international journals such as Museum International, UNESCO; Studi Emigration, Hommes & Migrations, the Cité Nationale de France; Magazine Fame, Fortune and Sweet Liberty (USA and Germany) and Brazilian Association of Museums - Rio de Janeiro.
In 2010, started partnership with SISEMA - State Museum, leading to the interior of 10 exhibitions Travellers and five workshops on Oral History and Conservation Paper.
Also in 2010, the 15th Festival of the Immigrant, won a record crowd of 21,000 visitors, the event went to the city calendar and for the past two years, had the support and recognition of Rede Globo São Paulo.
Finally, recall the statement made by the then Governor Mario Covas, the inauguration of the Immigrant Memorial, on April 6, 1998: "This space where they spent millions immigrants and migrants from today will be a space for meet and honor the immigrant communities children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. "
the past five years, the Association of Friends of the Immigrant Memorial, now the Institute of Museums, Memory and Identity, was present at this historic institution pursuing and fulfilling that motto. This has been our work and our goal.
Ana Maria da Costa Leitão Vieira
Museologist
Executive Director of the Immigrant Memorial until 21/12/2010
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