ABSTRACT
Many often the Santiago de Chile Event was mention as one of the most important international events for museums and Museology, both for Latin American protagonism and for the tone of the debates there and their clear developments in what has been called "New Museology". Less we know or have access to the documentation produced at the time, but the available sources presents the concern about issues related to the economic and social "development" of the continent: urbanization, industrialization, migration, among others. It is in this area that we tried to think about the role of museums, considering specific questions of the realities of a territory historically formed in a modern-colonial cleavage. In this sense, it is essential to contextualize the Santiago de Chile Event in a myriad of events and ideas that offer us a perspective on the expressive dimension of the event and the power of the "Integral Museum" as opposed to the term "Integrated Museum" thought by researches from Latin America.
KEYWORDS:
Latin America; Museum; Coloniality; Development