Diagnóstico da situação de museus universitários federais e avaliação do contexto do Museu dos Dinossauros da UFTM, integrante do Geoparque Uberaba (MG) aspirante UNESCO, Brasil

Abstract

In Brazil, university museums are generally set up with Federal Institutions of Higher Education or later linked to them, being dependent on transfers of federal resources, which are in involution generated by the economic crisis that the country has been suffering. Consequently, making the propensity of these museums unfeasible both for their research-teaching-extension purposes, as well as in their daily maintenance and their infrastructures. Currently, most museums linked to the Ministry of Education, such as the Museum of Dinosaurs at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (FUTM), have total economic dependence on this Ministry, according to Brazilian Institute of Museums, about 10% charge entrance fees, among other forms of collection without standardization, in collaboration with its sustainability due to the difficulty of implementation restricted by the legal parameters and budgetary control available to the Federal Institutions of Higher Education. Contrasting the relevance of their functions, the potential of their collection and their territorial influence and cultural dissemination that these museums have. Focusing on the need for a diagnosis of the structural, functional and financial situation of these federal university museums, and that makes it possible to evaluate the context of the Museum of Dinosaurs at the FUTM, which has a high cultural and tourist value as a international reference in paleontology with a significant socioeconomic impact in their Peiropolis community. For this purpose, bibliographical and exploratory research methodology of a qualitative and quantitative nature was applied for the purpose of descriptive statistical analysis, on federal university museums regarding their institutional identification, their functionalities, their services and care provided, as well as the methods of abstraction and means of receipt and execution of applied financial resources enabling a diagnosis. As well as a case study research on the Museum of Dinosaurs, on its identification, its functional performances, its services and care, its financial, and its visiting public and community, aiming to evaluate its context and to equip management for the development of innovative management proposals based on the results obtained. Enabling this Museum to enact its managerial and economic organization in an innovative way, relevant to effecting improvements in services and attendance to the public and to strengthen ties with the local community, and to measure sustainability plans.