The objects and their functions are configured depending on how they will be used, assuming they can be used as archives' tools, material culture inputs, generators of memories or simply perform the function for which they were designed. Thus, it becomes necessary to discuss the functions of museum objects and culture. To this end, the relations created between the items exhibited and the exhibition design in the process of memory elaborating will be identified, considering that both are inserted in an institutional space configured as Theater of Memory. The argument is supported by concepts from Hooper-Greenhill, Meneses and Ramos. As a case study, the exhibition Renato Russo, from the Museu da Imagem e do Som of Sao Paulo, was elected, including the description of the chosen objects and the dynamics created between the exhibition space, the objects and the visitor.
