ABSTRACT
Heritage is increasingly being used as a means of identifying and articulating a sense of ‘place’ in the context of the globalisation and postmodernisation of culture. One of the ways in which this focus on ‘place’ manifests itself is by investment in local museums that allow the production, representation and regulation of a discourse of both the loss and preservation of heritage in public. In Portugal, as in many other European countries, we have witnessed several examples of this trend, reflecting recent radical transformations in Portuguese society.
