Arch in the Pátio dos Canhões do Museu Histórico Nacional. Photo: Alessandra Sant'Anna/Wikimedia Commnos

Monarchists advance in national museology

With alliances in the Bolsonaro government, Monarchists try to interfere in the organization of national museums and protection of heritage, their latest act has generated concern among employees.
Exterior area of ​​MAM SP recreated in Minecraft. Photo: Leonardo Sang / Publicity.

MAM-SP launches educational project in Minecraft game

An initiative by the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art combines art, education and games, with reproductions of its space and works from the collection, and offers unique experiences to players
Portuguese Language Museum: Overview of the exhibition "Língua Solta", in the foreground "Olha minha lingua", by Alex dos Santos. Photo: Ciete Silverio / Publicity.

Words in the world of things 

First exhibition open at the Portuguese Language Museum, Língua Solta is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Fabiana Moraes and brings contemporary art works into dialogue with objects, posters and other elements of everyday life.
Luz Station, headquarters of the Portuguese Language Museum. Photo: Joca Duarte / Publicity

Revamped, Language Museum is reborn in downtown São Paulo

About five years after the fire that hit its headquarters, at Estação da Luz, the institution reopens in 2021 with updates to its contents, but keeping as a basis the same curatorial project that made it recognized   

history lab

In contrast to archaic visions of our past, the new Ipiranga Museum celebrates material culture, with a project that includes tactile resources and massive use of audiovisual By Maria HirSzman
Color image. Alessandra Munduruku, one of the main indigenous leaders in Brazil, during the II March of Indigenous Women: Reforestation, Bodies and Hearts for the healing of the earth. Brasília, 2021. Photo: Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá

The painful learning of museums

By reversing its censorship of MST works, Masp recognizes the crossroads of reality

National Museum Week seeks to reimagine the future of Brazilian institutions

With the theme "The future of museums: recovering and reimagining", the event brings extensive virtual programming, involving the entire country, and seeks to dialogue with technological advances to understand how they affect our way of being and being in the world.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Curitiba

Curitiba will gain an extension of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in...

A new museum space is set to arrive in Curitiba (PR) in 2025, in the wake of an unprecedented urban innovation project: the Fábrica complex...

The country's largest sacred art museum, in Salvador, is closed

Museum of Sacred Art of Bahia (MAS) faces serious structural risks and its collection is threatened, warns Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).

Normal was not normal: What museums do we want after the pandemic?

It is essential to start anew, to decolonize the museum from its servile condition of the ideology of a power and of a global economy, to understand how the narratives that museums starred in, the way in which they received their audiences, as mere consumers, distorted and robbed them of the challenges of contemporaneity