Keyword: National Museum
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Rebuilding heritage
Partnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections
GRADUATE STUDIES

Studies in jeopardy
Fire affects six of the institution’s graduate programs, of which two are world-class
UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS

Centers for generating knowledge
University museums organize exhibitions, administer graduate programs, and do research
ORGANIZATION

Dashed hopes
The National Museum was preparing for a revitalization project when it was obliterated by fire
HERITAGE

The pain of loss
Six hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America
By Redação
Letter from the Editor | 272

The role of museums
Images of the Brazilian National Museum in flames shocked the world. The 200-year-old institution, based in a former imperial palace, was home to plants and animals collected during nineteenth-century expeditions throughout Brazil, mummies and minerals gathered by the Portuguese royal family, prehistoric fossils and meteorites, and artifacts of extinct indigenous peoples. A collection of inestimable... View Article