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Museu Afro Brasil is a history, artistic and ethnographic museum dedicated to the research, preservation, and exhibition of objects and works related to the cultural sphere of black people in Brazil. It is a public institution held by the Secretariat for Culture of the São Paulo State and managed by the Museu Afro Brasil Association .
From 2004 to his death, he served as director of the Museu Afro Brasil, a museum dedicated to the culture and history of Afro-Brazilians. [8] He often described the Museu Afro Brasil as his greatest accomplishment. [9] In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Ipiranga by the state government of São Paulo, one of state's highest honors.
Display. The Afro-Brazilian Museum in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, was inaugurated on 7 January 1982 by the then Director of the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), Dr. Yeda Pessoa de Castro, through an agreement between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Education and Culture of Brazil, the government of Bahia, the city of Salvador and the Federal University of Bahia.
There was also a ban on Afro-Brazilian religions, and the first criminalization of cannabis use in Brazil was due to its association with the culture of the African slaves. Overpopulation caused uncontrolled rural exodus and urbanization and lack of infrastructure to assist the masses combined of the perpetuation of historical racial ...
The MNU created Centros de Luta (Fighting Centers) in cities and town across Brazil to promote social activism at the local level. [2] The MNU led to the creation of the first public body dedicated to the support of Afro-Brazilian social movements in 1984, known as the Participation Council And Development of the Black Community.
Festival Latinidades is an annual meeting dedicated to black culture, held in Brasília since 2008. [1] [2] The Festival Latinidades is an annual event that celebrates the International Day of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women (also known as the International Afro-descendant Women's Day) on 25 July since 1992. [3]
The archeological collection covers civilizations from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, pre-Columbian America, and especially pre-colonial Brazil. The ethnographic collection includes pieces related to African and Afro-Brazilian populations and indigenous peoples from all regions of Brazil. It also has a vast library, with about 60,000 ...
1997: Arte Madí, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) 2001: Arte abstracto del Río de la Plata, The Americas Society (New York, United States) 2002: Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City, Mexico) 2011: América Fría: La abstracción geométrica en latinoamérica (1934-1973) (11 de febrero - 15 de mayo de 2011) [12]