Vores søster-projekt La Museo de la Persona bliver hyldet i en artikel fra The Wall Street Journal, fordi de lader den almindelige og jævne brasilianer fortælle sin personlige historie.

Museet har samlet over 10.000 historier siden 1991, der fortæller Brasiliens historie fra andet perspektiv end det, som eksperterne formidler.

En af historierne handler om forholdet et barn havde til sin fraværende og voldige far:

“My father was very, very bad,” the metalworker said. “I don’t know if it was just badness or ignorance.” He recalled how his father once fed sweet bread to some dogs — but offered none to his little sister, who was crying for a few crumbs. The man telling that story, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is now Brazil’s president. He gave an eight-hour interview to the museum in 2000, two years before he won election as president

on his fourth try.

Museet blev etableret under dikatorskabet fra 1964-85, et dikatatur som “…shaped the museum’s philosophy that history is better told from the bottom up than the top down.”

“Brazil is an oral culture, partly because of our African and indigenous roots,” Ms. Worcman says. “You meet people who might not have had much formal education, but they have a natural gift for telling a story.”

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