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Room of Memories Opening

Sunday August 28th, 2011

Room of Memories

In September 1st, 2011, the Heritage Education Program Trem da Vale opened, in the Ouro Preto Train Station, the Room of Memories. This space is important for the recognition and estimation of Mariana’s and Ouro Preto’s cultural heritage and its preservation. The concept and realization of the Memory Room was based on an extensive, mainly audiovisual, historical collection, comprising of statements from inhabitants of these cities during the five years of Trem da Vale. It is designed as a contemporary museum space, in which visitors are presented to Vale Registrar and it conflates history, tradition, knowledge and popular wisdom.

Guests of the Memory Room opening event watch the multimedia presentation in the platform of the Ouro Preto Train Station.

The event was attended by approximately 300 people, among which 70 interviewees of Vale Registrar, their families and friends, local authorities, representatives of Vale, Fundação Vale, and Santa Rosa Bureau Cultural, as well as the Trem da Vale staff.

Guests of the Memory Room opening event in the platform of the Ouro Preto Train Station.

After the blessing of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Preto’s vicar, José Eudes Campos do Nascimento, the Memory Room was opened to the public, who was enchanted and moved by the material exposed.

The priest José Eudes Campos do Nascimento gives a blessing during hte opening of the Memory Room in the platform of the Ouro Preto Train Station. Watching are Francisco de Assis Gonzaga da Silva, Secretary of Culture and Tourism of Ouro Preto, Josanne Guerra Simões, Technical Advisor of the Oral History Center, Eleonora Santa Rosa, Director of Santa Rosa Bureau Cultural, Andreia Gama, Culture Manager of Fundação Vale and Sister Fidélis, Vale Registrar interviewee.

The priest José Eudes Campos do Nascimento gives a blessing during the opening of the Memories Room on the platform of the Ouro Preto Train Station. Watching are Francisco de Assis Gonzaga da Silva, Secretary of Culture and Tourism of Ouro Preto, Josanne Guerra Simões, Technical Advisor of the Oral History Center, Eleonora Santa Rosa, Director of Santa Rosa Bureau Cultural, Andreia Gama, Culture Manager of Fundação Vale and Sister Fidélis, Vale Registrar interviewee.

In the station platform, guests were served soup and snacks, and were treated to a musical presentation by the the Mariana band Uns e Outros, compelling some of the guests to dance.