Rupture and continuity: the future of tradition in museology

Recently in Museu do Índio, a national institution in Rio de Janeiro safeguarding an important part of Brazilian indigenous heritage, conservators discussed a new method for the preservation of ethnographic collections. Based on local knowledge, museum professionals considered using a chopped banan...

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Cyhoeddwyd yn:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/iss,
Prif Awdur: Brulon Soares, Bruno
Fformat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Iaith:Anglais
Cyhoeddwyd: ICOFOM Study Series 2020
Mynediad Ar-lein:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Crynodeb:Recently in Museu do Índio, a national institution in Rio de Janeiro safeguarding an important part of Brazilian indigenous heritage, conservators discussed a new method for the preservation of ethnographic collections. Based on local knowledge, museum professionals considered using a chopped banana stem as a new technology for pest control in one of the museum’s most sensitive reserves. According to one of the museum’s conservators, this method helps to avoid the infestation of organic mate...