Vale announces additional sponsorship to Project Museu Nacional Vive

Vale announced an additional sponsorship of R$500,000 to the Museu Nacional, incentivized through the Federal Culture Incentive Law, for the opening of an educational visitation center even before the completion of the works on the historic building. Mainly intended for teachers and students, the center will allow the resumption of school visits and the contact of children and teenagers with the institution’s collection, stimulating interest in science, history and sharing knowledge. The announcement was made in November 12th, 2021, at an event that marked the beginning of work on the facade and roof of the historic building.

“It is essential that our teachers, our children, adolescents and our schools have respect, admiration and love for this Museum, which is a house of all the brazilian people. We want to bring them back to the Museu Nacional as soon as possible”, said Luiz Eduardo Osorio, Executive Vice President of Institutional Relations and Communication at Vale and President of the Board of the Instituto Cultural Vale. “Children are the future of the country and it is essential that they have, in themselves, this seed of love, this seed of respect for our history.”

The visitation center will be located in the new Research and Teaching Campus of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ, in Quinta da Boa Vista. The 44 thousand m² space is scheduled to open in the first half of 2022 and it is part of the commitments signed by the Project Museu Nacional Vive, technical cooperation between UFRJ, UNESCO and the Vale Cultural Institute to return the museum to society with three fronts of action – the reconstruction of the monument-building and the new museography, the restoration of the historic gardens of Quinta da Boa Vista, the new Research and Teaching Campus and the Museum’s Central Library, located in Horto Botânico.

“There was a lack of filling in this structure and, today, we are going to be able to do this thanks to this unexpected announcement. I am moved because we fought a lot for this center, we had enormous difficulties. But it does exist and the children will have their National Museum back as soon as the pandemic allows it. I am very grateful to Instituto Cultural Vale for this contribution”, said Alexander Kellner, Director of the Museu Nacional/UFRJ.