Patrimônio e memória : preservação de acervos raros na Fundação Cultural Frei Simão Dorvi (Cidade de Goiás-GO)

Abstract

The Foundation Educational of the City of Goiás - FECIGO, a local non-profit institution, popularly known as Foundation Cultural Frei Simão Dorvi or simply Frei Simão Archiv was created in 1970 by the Italian-Vilaboan ecclesiastic Giuseppe Dorvi. The foundation is located in the former capital of Goiás, composing the architectural complex listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2001. The vilaboense entity has gathered in the same place a historical archive, a library and an annex called the Archive of Indigenous People and of Culture and Black Pride of Goiás. Through its facilities it has preserved, restored and made available for research, a diverse collection of books, periodicals and historical documents related to the memory and history of Goiás becoming an authentic "place of memory" according to the concept presented by Nora (1993). Through conservation, restoration, preservation, and mainly by making available documents linked to different organs of the local government, the Foundation Cultural Frei Simão Dorvi has provided over the years transparency and access to information, effectively corroborating for the implementation of Law No. 12.527 - Access to Information Law, in the state of Goiás. Among the various documents preserved in the Foundation Cultural Frei Simão Dorvi are documents, books and manuscripts from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, bibliographical heritage of an important manifestation of Brazilian cultural heritage: the bibliographical heritage.