Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
"On the night of September 2, 2018, a blaze swept through Brazil's national museum, Museu Nacional, in Rio de Janeiro, destroying not only the colonial building, portions of which dated to the sixteenth century, but roughly 92 percent of the 20 million objects in its holdings. This was Brazil's greatest encyclopedic museum, incorporating (among many others) collections of natural history, anthropology, archaeology, and art, thus forming the most comprehensive museum collection in the nation. Along with its many unique and irreplaceable collections, the Museu Nacional was also home to the country's oldest Indigenous Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian materials (fig. 1)."
Recommended Citation
Amy Buono, “Museums, and Other Realms of (dis)Enchantment,” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Dialogues section, Special eds. Tatiana Flores and Harper Montgomery, Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2020, 79-82. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.220007
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Comments
This article was originally published in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, volume 2, issue 2, in 2020. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2020.220007