Category Archives: Ethnography

The Ritual of the Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary, Afro Brasil Museum

The double exhibition “José de Guimarães – The Ritual of the Serpent: 10 Gouaches Inspired by the Work of Aby Warburg” and “The Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary”, which displays around 100 works that capture the symbolism of the snake in the arts. The snake is the subject of these…

The Ritual of the Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary, Afro Brasil Museum

Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets”, explore the natural techniques used by communities in Africa to create beautiful textiles. The Afro Brasil Museum, an institution of the São Paulo State Department of Culture, reveals the beauty, symmetry, and diversity of patterns and decorative styles of Bakuba fabrics. The…

Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets, Afro Brasil Museum

Alfred Weidinger: The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings”, curated by Emanoel Araújo, curator-director of the Afro Brasil Museum, the exhibition brings together 58 color and B&W photographs of the Austrian Alfred Weidinger, who portrayed contemporary kings and chiefs from different parts of the African continent, in addition to…

Alfred Weidinger: The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings, Afro Brasil Museum

Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery”, celebrate Black Awareness Day that year, the exhibition brings together more than 70 objects from urban and rural crafts, composing a set that highlights the contributions of blacks to science and technology in Brazil. The visitor can check…

Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery, Afro Brasil Museum

African and Afro-Brazilian ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of African and Afro-Brazilian ethnologyof the National Museum was made up of approximately 700 objects. It encompassed both specimens produced by people from different regions of the African continent and testimonies of the cultural manifestations of the descendants of African peoples in Brazil. The nucleus of African objects…

African and Afro-Brazilian ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Brazilian indigenous ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of Brazilian indigenous ethnology at the National Museum is among the largest in its type, covering more than 30,000 objects, produced by more than one hundred indigenous groups, from all regions of Brazil. This broad set – formed since the beginning of the 19th century, through field collections,…

Brazilian indigenous ethnology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Adding more than 700 items, the National Museum’s Egyptian archeology collection was the largest in Latin America and the oldest in the Americas. Most of the pieces entered the museum’s collection in 1826, when the merchant Nicolau Fiengo brought from Marseille a collection of Egyptian antiquities that belonged to the…

Ancient Egypt, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum’s classic archeology collection consisted of approximately 750 pieces, mostly covering the Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Italian civilizations, the largest of its kind in Latin America. Much of this collection corresponded to the Greco-Roman collection of Empress Teresa Cristina, interested in archeology since her youth. When she landed…

Mediterranean cultures, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The National Museum conserved an important set of approximately 1,800 artifacts produced by Amerindian civilizations during the pre-Columbian era, in addition to Andean mummies. Formed over the 19th century, this collection had its origins in the collections of the Brazilian imperial family, especially in the Pedro II collection, having subsequently…

Pre-columbian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

The collection of Brazilian archeology brought together a vast set of artifacts produced by the people who inhabited the Brazilian territory in the pre-colonial period, with more than 90,000 items, being considered the most comprehensive collection existing in its typology. Constituted since the beginning of the 19th century, the collection…

Brazilian Archeology, Brazil National Museum (Digital Restoration)

Citizenship under Construction, 1889 to present, National History Museum of Brazil

This section addresses the construction of citizenship after the establishment of the republican system in 1889. Being a citizen means belonging to a community, exercising political, civil and social rights and duties, recognizing the distinction between public and private interests. On display, the synthesis panel of the history of Brazil,…

Citizenship under Construction, 1889 to present, National History Museum of Brazil

The Construction of the Nation, 1822 to 1889, National History Museum of Brazil

The Construction of the Nation shows the process of building the Nation and its challenges. “The Construction of the Nation” telling the story of the Imperial State, from its foundation, on September 7, 1822, until the Proclamation of the Republic, on November 15, 1889. The battles with uniforms, war objects…

The Construction of the Nation, 1822 to 1889, National History Museum of Brazil

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Setting reproduces a cave in the Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, with cave drawings representing animals. Sambaquis, found on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, warn of the need to preserve archaeological sites and the environment. A word that in Tupi means “our home”, Oreretama presents the indigenous populations,…

Oreretama, National History Museum of Brazil

Asia the Future, Gwangju Design Biennale 2017

Future value discovered in Asia Only with industry and technologyit is not enough to tell the future.We can find another direction for the future in near and familiar culture of Asia.Asia the Future is an exhibition to explore the future value and philosophy in the Asian design. Asian countries such…

Asia the Future, Gwangju Design Biennale 2017

Celebrating Town, Day of the Dead 2017, Zocalo the Constitution Square

In the Day of the Dead 2017, The Zocalo will pretend to be a small town that is celebrating. The offering will be filled with shredded paper latticework, full of colors, with an offering full of pre-Hispanic symbology, and cosmogony of death. If you see it from the heights of…

Celebrating Town, Day of the Dead 2017, Zocalo the Constitution Square

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