Objectives
The main thrust of the program is to appreciate the cultural and natural heritage of both historical cities and the region in which they are located. To accomplish this, an extensive team of specialists from different areas, but not limited to – architecture, communication, history, education, museology, audiovisual – have combined their efforts to achieve the following objectives:
- To conduct educational activities that focus on appreciating and protecting our cultural and natural assets in order to alert the population about the need for their conservation, demonstrating through practical examples that preservation and development are intrinsically related.
- To include heritage education into the curriculum of local schools, with high quality instructional materials that refer to the local history and the cultural, natural, and human heritage;
- To mobilize local educators, students, and communities to survey non-conventional sources of research and recognize manifestations, artifacts, and documents that make up their history;
- To schedule activities oriented towards heritage education, interdisciplinary in nature, using cultural objects as a vehicles for knowledge;
- To make new generations aware of their cultural roots;
- To encourage the creation of local groups, associations, and commissions aimed at developing the survey, registration, protection, recovery, use, safekeeping, conservation, and advertisement of their heritage;
- To promote cultural tourism in the region of Ouro Preto and Mariana as a powerful source for job generation, linked to the reactivation of the railway stretch between both cities.
