The present study had had as principal objective to throw a new look on the educational experience of the Colégio Nova Friburgo of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (CNF/FGV), expert as a experimental school created by the private initiative. For so much, looked for to investigate such object through the study of the institutional memory of CNF, examining three documental sources in whose materiality such memory had presented concret way (two books edited by FGV about CNF, the Revista Curriculum edited by CNF and former-students` testimonies and former- teachers of CNF). At the end of the present study it was possible to capture elements of a traditional pedagogy and of a traditionalistic speech and patrimonialist that were presented for besides the ideas of pedagogic innovation and administrative competence presents in the analyzed documents.