This Master s thesis aims to comprehend life path, in autobiographical form, as a didactic strategy to shape the school historical knowledge. Through the development of our own educational proposal, we boost the research-action methodology, along with three classes of the 6th year of Primary School at the Municipal School Sérgio Buarque de Holanda in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, part of the didactic research consists, in combination with other educational activities, to appropriate of the Museu da Pessoa project, a website museum, which uses life path s narratives as a Humanity s Cultural Heritage. The activities draw on personal narratives as a possibility of historical knowledge in basic education. Consequently, we produced and dialogued concepts as resources to investigate the autobiographical practice through the Museu da Pessoa conception.