Identity ARTfact: beyond patrimonial processes in the museum

This paper is a reflection, through educational practice in museums, on the role of contemporary art in the construction of new identities. In a post-modern thought, also museographic and museologic, educational actions into museums arises beyond the plane transmission of contents, also managing in the creation of new cultural paradigms. This is the framework within raises a new heritage education and heritage processes as substrate for generating identization processes both individually and collectively. The significance of these actions must transcend the walls of the museum and find a connection between the external and the internal of individual and communit