This thesis investigates the performance of the Museum of Favela in theterritory of Cantagalo, Pavão and Pavãozinho, favelas located between theneighborhoods of Ipanema and Copacabana, south of Rio de Janeiro. Having as anobject of study the Favela Museum (MUF-RJ) in the relationship that it establisheswith the territory of the favelas where it is located, with the objective of knowingthe MUF and its actions in the territory, in order to identify the museum point ofview on this territory by retelling and keeping their stories and memories alive. Theoral reports of 5 founding partners of Favela Museum, obtained in semi-structuredinterviews and guided tours through the MUF territory, constituted themethodology of the empirical research carried out from the end of 2021 to the endof 2022. As a main theoretical perspective, we used the works of Tim Ingold andhis proposition of an education of attention; concept mobilized to analyze MUFactions. In this way, the study investigates the strategies used by the museum toreveal the lives of adults and children residing in that territory, in order to presenttheir specificities and contrasts with other museum proposals, such as, for example,the concept of living collection. From the field, it was possible to understandMUF s performance as an educator by highlighting the stories and memory of thefavelas in which it operates, as with its actions it invites residents and visitors topay attention to what they experience, whether on a daily basis or in the museumproposals. The museum presents the favela to its audience as an experience of aliving collection, marked by a relationship between the actors, which can beunderstood through a process of attention, in the sense proposed by Ingold.