Arquivos e cultura: Arquivo Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul no Programa Cultura Viva

Abstract

The archival document in fact began administrative, that is its logic. However an archive, though current or intermediate and, thus inaccessible to the general public, can not be denied from its cultural character, after all, as a represent at of the administrative, governmental, politic and religious ways, among others, it’s just expressing by its register, the intrinsic culture of this cultural apparatus. Understand it that way is fundamental to subsequently spread it, in the phase permanent of its life cycle. From this reality, the intention was to discuss an archival institution, in particular, the Arquivo Público do Rio Grande do Sul – APERS, its performance and ability and possibilities in front of the cultural brazilian management, mainly because of the advances lived by it, including conceptually, in a Democratic Brazil that more and more urge, for an integrated national project, where the diversity and the indetitary construction has reseved places. A country, that, it is not recognized only for the south and southeast, but begins to respect and enter its other regions. In this part the culture had the main role. Therefore the role of the archives, well, that is an archivists and managers duty of bringing up this discussion to society.