Museu Nacional Vive

VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS

MEMORY AND RECONSTRUCTION

This virtual exhibit invites the public to learn more about the history of the institution and the ongoing work to fully restore it for society. Organized in the format of timelines, the page Museu Nacional Vive – Memory and Reconstruction offers navigation through two virtual sections. “More Than 200 Years of History” highlights key moments in the Museum’s history, such as its first exhibitions and visits by luminaries like Santos Dumont, Marie Curie, and Albert Einstein. In the section “Building Tomorrow,” visitors can explore details of the ongoing reconstruction through images, texts, and videos on topics like collection recovery, sculpture restoration, facade work, archaeological monitoring, and more.

The page will be regularly updated, showcasing the progress of the restoration and documenting significant events in this historic rebuild. Access it HERE.

MINERALOGY
The new website for the collection recompose campaign presents the exhibition Recompõe.Mineralogia, which reveals nine items to the public, including two recently donated pieces and seven acquired with sponsorship from Vale, through the Law of Incentive to Culture. One of the featured items is a gypsum sample, which is used in the construction industry to make plaster, for instance. While other minerals have high hardness, gypsum can be easily scratched, even by human nails.

The second virtual room of the exhibition is dedicated to five items rescued from the 2018 fire. A highlight of this exhibition is revealing how the minerals transformed due to the intense heat of the fire. For example, there’s a quartz stone that was once brown or smoky-colored but is now colorless. Another item on display is a chalcedony that lost its original color and was left impregnated with soot.

ANTHROPOLOGY
With the support of the Museu Nacional Vive Project, the virtual exhibition “Os Primeiros Brasileiros” brings together the Museum’s indigenous collection that was unaffected by the 2018 fire. The exhibition was created by anthropologist João Pacheco de Oliveira (MN/UFRJ) in close collaboration with the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations from the Northeast, Minas Gerais, and Espírito Santo (APOINME).

Revisit the history of Brazil and explore the cultural diversity of the indigenous peoples of the Northeast!

PHYSICAL EXHIBITIONS HELD (2022/2023)

Celebrating 409 years of Madureira, the Museu Nacional Vive Project and the City of Rio de Janeiro developed the exhibition “Luzia and Berthasaura in Madureira.” Visitors enjoyed seeing a replica of the skull of Luzia – the oldest human remains in the Americas – as well as the fossil of Berthasaura leopoldinae, found in Paraná in 2021.

Around the Paço de São Cristóvão (the Museum’s headquarters), the open-air exhibition “Museu Nacional Vive” featured panels and photographs highlighting the history and ongoing reconstruction of the institution.

The exhibition Recompõe.Mineralogia, with 17 large and small pieces, occupied the entrance hall of the palace (meteorite Bendegó room). For the first time since the 2018 fire, visitors could approach the building and observe, from its central doors, a diverse set of minerals that had been recovered, along with newly acquired items sponsored by Vale, through the Law of Incentive to Culture.

Stimulated by the Museu Nacional Vive Project, the virtual exhibition “Os Primeiros Brasileiros” [The First Brazilians] “, is running with the National Museum’ indigenous collection that was not hit by fire. The exhibition was conceived by anthropologist João Pacheco de Oliveira (MN/UFRJ), in close partnership with the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of the Northeast region and states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo (APOINME).

Revisit with us Brazil’s history and browse the cultural diversity of the indigenous peoples of the Northeast!

PHYSICAL EXHIBITIONS (2019)

In partnership with other Brazilian research and cultural institutions, the National Museum/UFRJ continues to exhibit its collections. Four physical exhibitions hosted by cultural centers in Rio de Janeiro helped to spread knowledge and strengthen the Museum’s relationship with its audience.

ANTARCTICA

Just four months after the fire, the exhibition “Quando Nem Tudo era Gelo – Novas Descobertas no Continente Antártico” [When Not Everything Was Ice – New Discoveries on the Antarctic Continent] opened at the Casa da Moeda Cultural Center (RJ). Plant fossils, shells, shark teeth, crustaceans and even some pieces rescued from the fire were exhibited.

ARQUEOLOGY

The exhibition “Santo Antônio de Sá: Primeira Vila do Recôncavo da Guanabara” [Santo Antônio de Sá: First Village of Recôncavo da Guanabara] opened at CAIXA Cultural (RJ) in November 2019, exhibiting archeological pieces found during the construction of the Petrochemical Complex of the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Itaboraí.

METEORITES

Rocky and metallic meteorites, a meteoritic iron dagger and a totem that tells the story of the famous Bendegó make up the exhibition “Resurgindo das Cinzas” [Rising from Ashes]. The result of a partnership with the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (RJ), the exhibition opened to the public in November 2019.

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Photographs, music, artifacts and films that record the diversity and narratives of indigenous peoples compound the exhibition “Os Primeiros Brasileiros” [The First Brazilians], which occupied the rooms of the National Archives (RJ). The exhibition has been in circulation for over ten years, always awakening new emotions and perspectives on the country’s indigenous people.