The National Museum was the most important museum of this kind in Latin America, with a collection of about 20 million objects – including artefacts of long extinct indigenous groups and the last surviving records of their languages.
The Goethe-Institut and the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, in collaboration with numerous museums and cultural institutions and supported by the German Foreign Office, are organising an International Museum Conference in Rio de Janeiro. In particular, the hybrid conference aims to develop concepts that prepare museums of Natural History and Ethnology for the future in difficult times. The central themes of the conference are: “Museums and society”, “Collections and archives” and “Communication, international networking, and sustainable structures”.
Prior to the conference as well as during the event itself, bilateral workshops on these main topics will be held between the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and German museums as well as other partners from the museum landscape. The workshops will be conceptualized and conducted by the following tandems: