Community Museums as an Ancestral Intercultural Communication Strategy in Nueva Guinea, RACCS

Abstract

The harvest confirms that “Los Ranchitos” Community Museum is an ancestral intercultural communication strategy in Nueva Guinea, which contributes significantly to the cultural heritage and revitalization of the mestizo people collective identity. Also, it strengthens the Nicaraguan Network of Community Museums. Consistently, the study allows documenting the work that is undertaken from the territory for rescuing of the cultural heritage. This is a qualitative study, guided by “the path of Creation, Recreation of Knowledge, Knowings and Practices of URACCAN”, in a strategy that ensured the direct involvement of the community articulated from the Nicaraguan network of community museums and the museum friends committee. The study highlights that although these spaces are an instrument for the protection and preservation of the cultural heritage and identity of the mestizo people from Nueva Guinea, there is a need for greater dissemination, awareness raising and care in their quality as ancestral sites.