Museum without Walls

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil - Rio de Janeiro, 2011.

Donation of pieces from the Museum of Removals' collection to the National History Museum (© Luiz Claudio Silva / Museum of Removals collection).

Stratigraphic Turbidities exhibition, by Yuri Frimeza - Museu de Arte do Rio, 2013 (© Wilton Montenegro)

Fragmentos Rítmicos (Dionísio del Santo, oil on canvas, 1995) - access in augmented reality

In opposition to the objects collected from the rubble of Providência, the archaeological finds that a century ago had been thrown there as leftovers now performed singularity, flaunting the strength of those who, in a gesture of insubmission to gravity and oblivion, had returned to the surface.

Reproductions of “artworks” which come with a glossary create a new perspective, add another meaning, or simply mix up the first meaning when facing what was initially appropriated by the artist.

The processes that culminated in the independence of the former European colonies affected disciplines that, directly or indirectly, legitimized colonial power. The New Museology movement provoked actions that brought the museum closer to the community, making it possible to include groups related to the safeguarded collections within the institutions.