O Público do Museu da Inconfidência: da legitimação do patrimônio nacional às necessidades de fruição para os turistas

The debate which deals with cultural heritage in Brazil is present as its forms of preservation and as its tools of identity. However, it is necessary to reflect the forms of appropriation of who does it exist: the public. In this work, through documentary analysis, we considerated the contents of Inconfidencia Museum visitation, in Ouro Preto, since its inception in 1944 until 2009. Such quantitative indicators allow us to tell the public of the Inconfidencia Museum was who legitimated the nationalist tradition invented in the Government of Getúlio Vargas and materialized in its presentation. This article still were considered the visitors' testimonies, were recorded in the Book of Occurrences, which provide subsidies to analyze the visitation over the years under the scope of tourism. It is concluded that the Inconfidencia Museum had to adapt to the needs of contemporary tourist fruition, although it couldnot if unlink of nationalist roots that gave its origin