A major challenge for contemporary nations is to rethink models of economic
and social development from their own realities, demand which effective
participation of different actors is a major factor in its success. In this context,
museums and cultural heritage are configured as supporters in the formation of
a new political agency, since they are learning and interaction spaces between
different audiences. From this premise, the present study aims to analyze how
the fossil heritage at Atalaia Beach, city of Salinopolis, northeastern Pará, in the
North region of Brazil, can assist in the development of the local community.
Found in an area of intense tourism and urban expansion, such heritage is
formed by outcrops of carbonate rocks belonging to the Pirabas Formation,
geological unit that goes back 23 million years (Oligo-Miocene) and whose
informational value is mentioned in the literature science since the late
nineteenth century, but still unknown to the general public. Thus, the proposal of
musealization in situ of this paleontological record is inserted both in the
conservation of its documental capacity as the communication of its importance
to the people around it, in order that this space may arise as an area of dialogue
between university, with its peculiar vision of the heritage, and the population,
which has different ways of appropriating it, so that a shared management of
the site can be considered from their educational and economic potential.
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