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| Museum of Afro-Brazilian Research | |
|---|---|
| Name | Museum of Afro-Brazilian Research |
| Native name | Museu de Pesquisa Afro-Brasileira |
| Established | 1980s |
| Location | São Paulo, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro |
| Type | Ethnographic museum |
Museum of Afro-Brazilian Research is a specialized ethnographic institution focused on the history, material culture, and diasporic connections of Afro-Brazilian populations. The institution engages with collections, research, conservation, exhibitions, and community programs that intersect with the legacies of Atlantic slavery, religious traditions, and civic movements. It is linked through collaborations with regional universities, international archives, and cultural organizations across Latin America, Africa, Europe, and North America.
The museum emerged amid debates involving Gilberto Freyre, Joaquim Nabuco, Luiz Gama, Zumbi dos Palmares, Getúlio Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek, Paulo Freire, Florestan Fernandes, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Darcy Ribeiro, Anísio Teixeira and municipal authorities in Salvador, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Early institutional sponsors included Fundação Nacional do Índio, Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and international partners such as UNESCO, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. Key events that shaped its agenda referenced the Lei Áurea, the Constitution of Brazil (1988), the Direitos Humanos movement, and cultural policies following the Redemocratization of Brazil and the Constituent Assembly of 1987–1988.
The museum's holdings include ethnographic objects, audiovisual recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and prints associated with figures such as Mestre Pastinha, Dandara dos Palmares, Tia Ciata, Lampião, Mário de Andrade, Carmen Miranda, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Jorge Amado, Abdias do Nascimento, Benedita da Silva, Lélia Gonzalez, Carolina Maria de Jesus and movements like Movimento Negro Unificado, Música Popular Brasileira, Samba, Capoeira and Candomblé. Archival series reference correspondence linked to Getúlio Vargas, Joaquim Nabuco, Abolitionism, Casa-grande & Senzala debates, and missionary records tied to Sociedade de Geografia do Rio de Janeiro and Padre Antônio Vieira collections. Significant items trace routes to West Africa, Angola, Benin, Nigeria, Congo Free State artifacts, and diasporic exchanges with Haiti, Cuba, United States, United Kingdom, France and Portugal.
Research programs partner with Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), Instituto Moreira Salles, Museu Afro Brasil, Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil, Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil and international centers such as Smithsonian Institution, British Museum, Musée du quai Branly, Brooklyn Museum and Library of Congress. Conservation labs apply protocols from ICOM, ICOMOS, UNESCO World Heritage Centre guidelines and collaborate with specialists experienced in organic materials conserved at Museu do Amanhã and university conservation programs at Yale University, University College London and Universidade de Coimbra. Comparative studies reference scholarship by Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Angela Davis and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda.
Temporary and traveling exhibitions have toured with partners such as Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Museu Paulista, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sesc, Bienal de São Paulo and international venues including Tate Modern, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Hamburger Bahnhof and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Curatorial projects highlighted the works of Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, Candido Portinari, Heitor dos Prazeres, Rubem Valentim, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and contemporary artists like Ernesto Neto, Adriana Varejão, Vik Muniz, Kara Walker and Yinka Shonibare. Public programs feature panels with representatives from Movimento Negro Unificado, academics from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, and activists associated with Black Lives Matter transnational dialogues.
Outreach initiatives coordinate with municipal education secretariats of São Paulo Municipality, Salvador Municipality and Rio de Janeiro Municipality, municipal schools, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, Museu da República, Instituto Moreira Salles Educação and community organizations such as Ilê Aiyê, Olodum, Filhos de Gandhy and Afoxé. Programs include oral history projects featuring elders from Quilombo dos Palmares descendants, youth workshops in partnership with Fundação Palmares, collaborations with Movimento Negro, and joint initiatives with scholar-activists like Lélia Gonzalez and Abdias do Nascimento.
Facilities occupy adapted colonial and modernist structures in urban districts influenced by architects such as Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ruy Ohtake and landscape interventions recalling Roberto Burle Marx. Storage and exhibition spaces follow environmental controls recommended by ABNT standards and international museums like Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Accessibility retrofits reference guidelines from Lei Brasileira de Inclusão and collaborations with disability advocates and organizations including Instituto de Defesa do Consumidor.
Governance is overseen by advisory boards drawing members from Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Ministério da Cultura (Brazil), Secretaria de Cultura do Estado da Bahia, Secretaria Municipal de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro and civil society representatives from Movimento Negro Unificado and Fundação Cultural Palmares. Funding streams combine public grants from Ministério da Educação, project support from CAPES, CNPq, cultural funds like Lei Rouanet, and private philanthropy from foundations including Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Itaú Cultural and corporate sponsors such as Banco do Brasil and Petrobras. UNESCO and international cultural cooperation agreements support conservation and digitization initiatives.
Category:Museums in Brazil