Museums

master plan, interdisciplinary interface, exhibition languages, educational strategies, accessibility, sustainability

In 1981, while Brazil headed for the democratic opening, Expomus was founded with the focus on new possibilities of work stimulated by our Culture. The museums have already emerged as a source of dialogue and comprehension towards the society. This vision – full of significances – guided our first years of activity in the museum segment. It was time to enlarge horizons, to assimilate new ideas, but also to make our contribution so that the world would get to know our country by our multiculturalism.

Museology became our articulating axis, the spinal column from where our activities emanate. In the beginning of the 1990’s, this commitment along with the main museological challenges at the time, led us to roads and tracks of social and environmental projects, expanding our work with new partnerships – either the nonprofit sector, or the public and the private organizations.

In the last decade, we turn the eyes to the issues that expand the space and the discussion on museums, allowing a better access to collections and information by their audience and integrating them to their communities.

In everything we do there is a museological deed, an implicit desire to amplify, to contribute and to disseminate to the society the importance of inheritance, and to recognize the greatness of being able to take possession of one’s own history, records, signs, ways and routes.

Services

• Execution of new museums
• Renovation of museums
• Strategic planning, conception, execution and reconstruction of museums and cultural centers
• Teamwork training in the museological segment, through seminaries, lectures and cultural workshops
• Development of educational programs focused on the comprehension and the conservation of the material and immaterial inheritance
• Accessibility studies
• Local history and community enrollment
• Sustainability strategies
• Social, educational and environmental projects with museological input

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  National and International Exhibitions

curatorial services, interdisciplinary committees, exhibition design, integrated communication, audience

While in the second half of the 19th Century a lot of exhibitions traveled around the world, stimulating the exposure of museum collections in different venues, in the first decade of the 21st Century instigating exhibitions have been developed. They have conquered new audiences through the development of new methodological strategies and the use of new conservation and promotion techniques. These contemporary shows multiply the exhibition languages, encourage the multidisciplinary approach and the use of technological resources.

This dynamic setting is a source of continuous thinking and excellence for museums, cultural centers and professionals, not only in the Cultural segment, but also in all areas of knowledge, that make use of exhibition resources to promote and to disseminate it and its interface to daily subjects. The exhibition development includes a variety of professionals and a complex chain of conceptual and operational procedures, and is undeniably a productive channel of cultural and institutional interchange.

Expomus is well-known in Brazil and overseas by the organization of large-scale exhibitions, that explore at the highest degree the potential of dialogue that these projects bring to light – either through their central subject or through the transversal concepts. Our technical and strategic experience in this area grants the proposal, the complete development and the safe transfer of hundreds of works around the world, besides the promotion of excellent educational programs and the access of all audiences.

Services

• Proposal and complete development of national and international temporary exhibitions
• Proposal and complete development of permanent exhibitions for museums, cultural and entrepreneurial institutions
• coordination of loans of works and objects, traveling exhibitions, temporary importation and exportation

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  Collection

computerized cataloguing, research, preventive conservation, restoration, special packing, air-conditioning system, technical reports, supervised transfers, insurance, evaluation, communication

Significant part of the Brazilian Patrimony is not in museums. It is found in private collections all over the country. Expomus manages public and private collections, owned by families or enterprises.

We understand that this universe represents a clear vision of future. From the artwork to the historical collection, from the archeological remains to the scientific instruments – each record requires from us a thorough handling, including safeguard procedures and international standards of conservation and safety, which are fundamental for the preservation of these artistic and inherited works to the future generations.

A team of experts assures a detailed and careful collection management, including technical procedures, such us identification, cataloguing, cleaning, preventive conservation and restoration; research, historical documentation, packing and insurance; as well as development of strategic communication programs.

Services

• computerized collection cataloguing
• home care management for private collections
• loan management for exhibitions
• customized public exposure programs for collections
• special educational programs to make collections known
• installation of storage rooms for public and private collection
• collection storage management

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Integrated Areas

M+C+E
Our course of action is based on the excellence of the three areas of activities, which interact in the development of our projects, providing control, dynamism, innovation and quality to our performance. Projects that gather the main capacities of each area maximize and expand the results, either in a temporary exhibition or in an extensive program of collection management.

How does it work?

M+C
The integration between our Collection and Museology teams offers a complete solution to collectors and institutions, whose collections are handled according to the conservation standards of the main Brazilian and International Museums. On the other hand, the museums take in guidance based in the most recent tools of museological management, in accordance to important procedures employed by business and/or non-profit sector management.

M+E
Our museological approach to exhibition development assures countenance and efficiency, and also safety of the displayed object. Educational programs are specially developed for our exhibitions, which are evaluated according to international standards.

C+E
Our qualified temporary loan management assures safety and support to the implementation of exhibitions in Brazil and overseas, and favors logistics and preventive conservation of works, even during long traveling shows. Detailed procedures of preventive conservation, pick-up, handling, packing, transportation and assembly are followed with technical accuracy in the exhibitions organized by Expomus, as well as in the loan management of exhibitions held by other institutions.

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