The museum as a symbol of materiality provides interpretations of objects and their meanings that become a mediating stage in the articulations of memory between the past and the present. Thus, this article is an essay with a theoretical conceptual approach of a qualitative nature, based on a critical analysis of the cultural materiality of personal objects, physical and urban space, based on the reflections of anthropologists Peter Stallybrass, Tim Ingold and Cristina Freire, from these articulations, the resignification of cultural materiality and its application in the museum space is analyzed. In this way, this essay aims to propose a reflection on the impacts of modernity in the context of museums as places of memory in the city, seeking to reinforce the new paths of design for the sustainability of material culture.
Cunha et al. (2025) studied this question.