Museu Mafalala | https://museumafalala.org.mz/Museu Mafalala is a community based museum that complies with the fundamentals of socialmuseology.
Its curatorial speech is particularly based on the historical neighbourhood of Mafalalaand the city of Maputo-Mozambique at large.
Museu Mafalala comes to be has a result of an organic and participatory community process ledby Associação IVERCA | Turismo, Cultura e Meio ambiente through its preservational programmeof Mafalala’s cultural heritage.
Museu Mafalala positions itself as an instituition of research concerned with the documentation,conservation and preservation of the existent cultural heritage and history of Mafalala;
community awareness programs regarding the cultural heritage specially for children and youth.
Simultaneously the Museum also discusses the access to art in informal settlements and placeslike Mafalala, the stimulus to critical thinking through art and the creation of cultural equipmentthat can contribute for a larger democratization of culture and artistic production.
On the other hand, the Museum presents itself as an eclectic infrastructure of an exquisitearchitecture, self-sustainable and concerned with the urban expansion and processes ofgentrification occurring in Maputo. It is equally an element of inclusiveness for a circular andcommunity economy based in culture and tourism. Thus promoting social integration ofvulnerable groups such as youth, women and children