Abstract
In 2020, Museums around the world closed their doors in the wake of the pandemic. While rethinking their limits, scope and new temporality, daily activities were disrupted and suspended. As buildings that maintain a dialogue with the past, with the memory and with the future, their habitual cultural policies had to face emergency measures and, later, an annual conjuncture plan to face the challenge of working behind closed doors. Likewise, the uncertainty of a static present invited the Museums to revisit their own history, full of out of step dreams and lost cultural policies, that knocked on the door to remember the untimely pulse of institutional memories. Faced with this new reality, an already existing general crisis was accentuated and a need became clear: Museums in general, and particularly those dedicated to art, are in need of a renovation
This short essay will focus on this current problem in the management of the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Pettoruti and the cultural policies that was activated in the framework of the pandemic. In the first part, with a speculative approach, some questions are raised about the museum of the future, its scope and most pressing questions; in the second, a brief and selective tour of the Museum's historical memory and the proposals that have transformed its limits over its almost one hundred years is put on the page. Finally, in the third section, bringing together the sensibilities of the previous two, it will recover a part of the Museum's experience during the pandemic and it was suggested the vicissitudes of an institution dedicated to heritage and contemporary art alike, in a time of an uncertain future.