The 20th National Museum Week began today (16), in Rio de Janeiro, with the launch, in digital format, of the Annals of the 2nd Museum and Education Seminar, held by the National Historical Museum (MHN), in November last year. The highlight of the event, promoted by the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), will be the opening, this Wednesday (18), of the exhibition Rio-1922which features the city from 100 years ago.
The exhibition is sponsored by Instituto Cultural Vale, through the Federal Law of Incentive to Culture, and brings together paintings, photographs, objects, pieces of clothing and period furniture that seek to show how life was lived in the then capital of Brazil and what the challenges were. of the period. THE Rio-1922 It will be on display until December, with free admission, at the MHN, located at Praça Marechal Âncora, downtown. The museum from Wednesday to Friday, from 10 am to 5 pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 1 pm to 5 pm.
“For us, 2022 is both the commemoration of our centenary and the bicentennial of Independence, because the museum was created in the year of the celebrations of this event, in 1922”, said the technical coordinator of the MHN, Fernanda Castro, in an interview with Brazil Agency. The 18th was chosen for the opening of the show because it is International Museum Day.
THE Rio-1922 begins by portraying the collapse of Morro do Castelo and the transformations in the region where the museum is located, and also talks about the International Exhibition of the Centenary of Independence. The entire area was transformed to host the show. One of the modules highlights what was happening in Rio de Janeiro at that time, how people dressed, what products circulated in the city. Images of the old Rio will be displayed, ending with the context of the creation of the National Historical Museum.
The exhibition includes the collection of the MHN itself and pieces provided by Ibram, as well as by the National Museum of Fine Arts, which will present the modernist movement in Rio de Janeiro to the public, “bringing a little of the Rio effervescence of the 20s”, highlighted Fernanda Castro. Rio-1922 is supported by the Associação dos Amigos do MHN and in partnership with other public institutions, such as the Museum of the Republic and the Audiovisual Technical Center.
Medal
The work Pátio da Minerva, which is part of the collection of the National Historical Museum – Manuel de Oliveira Pastana/MHN Collection
at the opening of Rio-2022, the MHN will receive the Tiradentes Medal, awarded by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj) to people and institutions that provided relevant services to the public cause in the state. The Association of Friends of the MHN and four former directors of the institution will receive honorable motions: Heloísa Duncan, Solange Godoy, Vera Tostes and Paulo Knauss.
Fernanda Castro informed that, on Thursday (19), two more exhibitions will be inaugurated, one of them, virtual: Between Scenes and Portraits, which can be accessed on the Google Arts & Culture platform. The second, face-to-face, is the Decolonial Brazil – Other Storiesa set of 17 interventions in the long-term circuit of the MHN on themes and objects related to the African diaspora in the history of Brazil.
The National Museum Week schedule ends on Friday (20) with another edition of the Bonde da História em Casa project, broadcast on the MHN YouTube channel, which takes the public to virtually ‘walk through’ the museum with the “200 Years of Independence of Brazil” activity. The exhibition is interactive and does not require prior registration to be accompanied.
“Anyone can follow and interact with our team through the YouTube channel. We answer questions. It is an interactive visit”, explained the technical coordinator of the National Historical Museum.
other museums
At the Museu do Índio, a scientific-cultural body linked to the National Foundation of the Indian (Funai), the virtual exhibition was launched today (16). Indigenous Art at the Museum: From Villages to the World. In the exhibition, which is part of the program of the 20th National Museum Week, visitors can take the route that arts and artifacts from different indigenous cultures travel through until they reach the museum and are ready to be disseminated to the public.
In Petrópolis, a mountain region in the state of Rio de Janeiro, you can see the exhibition commemorating the 200th anniversary of Empress Dona Teresa Cristina, at the Imperial Palace, with tickets at popular prices: R$ 10 full and R$ 5 half-price. Prohibited.
In Niterói, in the metropolitan region of Rio, the Ingá Museum promotes a mediated sensory visit on Wednesday. The activity aims to serve all audiences, especially people with partial and total loss of vision, expanding access to the work and promoting experimentation.
At Instituto Moreira Salles, located in Gávea, the exhibition of the first video of the children’s series is scheduled for Wednesday, from 7pm to 9pm. Take the vision, about the institution’s photography collection. Young Mari reflects on images from the collection and the power of indigenous protagonism in visual narratives. The launch will be at the Indigenous Museums and Cultures table, and the broadcast will be live on IMS YouTube channel and not Facebook.
In partnership with the Secretary of Education of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Earth Sciences, located in Urca, promotes tomorrow (17), from 4 pm to 6 pm, the launch of the Museum in Movement/22 Program project, for the kindergarten children who study in the Chapadão and Pedreira complexes, considered areas with the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) in Rio de Janeiro.
The 20th National Museum Week Programming Guide can be accessed on here. 877 museums from all over the country participate in this year’s program, with 2,587 registered events. 379 cities from 26 states are registered. Activities include showstheaters, seminars, exhibitions, cinema, mediated visits, debates, book launches, workshops, festivals, among others.
