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The Three Main Epistemological Pillars of the Contemporary Industrial Museum

Abstract This article presents the epistemological bases for the construction of a contemporary industrial museum. For this purpose, the three main pillars of such construction are analysed: the material objects in general—from the buildings to the tools; documentation—from which information can be extracted; and human memories—essential pieces of information, indispensable for completing the material objects and the documentation. Each of these three sources requires specific research methodologies that range from conservation of material objects to the hermeneutics of historical documents, including research techniques in anthropology. This article presents a case study in which this concept of the industrial museum was applied. It is a museum of industry that opened to the public in 2005 in Portugal, following a project that was designed by the author within the abovementioned conceptualization.