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New blog - Museu de Arqueologia (Brazil)

Museu de Arqueologia

Thanks to Paula Veiga for the news that a new blog has been established for the Museu de Arqueologia in Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil, which displays replicas of ancient Egyptian objects. The posts are accompanied by some good photographs of the exhibits, so even if you don't speak a word of Portuguese you may find it of interest.

The first two posts, available from the above address are:
A II Exposição Permanente: Egito Antigo Vida e Imortalidade (with lots of good photographs) and ProjetoToth de Educação e Cultura

An article in April on the ANBA website by Isaura Daniel, featured on an earlier post, described the museum. Here's an extract:

The Archaeology Museum has in exhibition 260 replicas of objects from the birth of Ancient Egypt. They are from small amulets to larger items, like a bust of Nefertiti or a reproduction of a sarcophagus that is in the British Museum. The site also houses an original object and a mask of a mummy from the second century B.C.

According to Egyptologist Moacir Elias Santos, the owner of the museum, the mask was acquired in France and donated to the museum. The existing information about the object is that it is a male mask made in papyrus, gypsum and linen. The replicas that are part of the museum's collection were made by artist Eduardo Vilela and also by Santos himself. The museum, in reality, has a collection of over 600 objects, but only some of them are being exhibited. The site has two rooms covering a total of 60 square metres.

It all began with the museum owner's curiosity about Egypt.

- The Scribes Of Brazil
ANBA - Arab-Brazil News Agency (Isaura Daniel) To some Brazilians, the hieroglyphs used in Ancient Egypt are no mystery. They are few, less than ten in the country, but they understand the language of the pharaohs. And they use their knowledge to read...

- Egyptian Museum In Curitiba
Brazil-Arab News Agency (Isaura Daniel) São Paulo – Every month, around 3,000 people visit the Egyptian Museum, on Nicaragua street, in Curitiba, capital of the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, to see the relics of the land of the pharaohs up...

- A Century Of Making Replicas
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ "The Art Revival Centre (ARC) affiliated to the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) was established more than 100 years ago to prepare drawings of Egyptian antiquities and make replicas of artefacts that are on...

- Egyptology Collection In São Paulo Art Museum
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=10820 A review of the Egyptology collection in the São Paulo Art Museum: "The São Paulo Art Museum (Masp) has in its collection Egyptian archaeological items. The Masp has 22 Egyptian antiques, among them...

- Ancient Egypt Inspires Brazilian Artist
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=8794 "An admirer of Egyptian culture, Eduardo Vilela has already travelled to the Arab country to photograph the originals and then transform them into replicas. Some of his works, like sculptures and pictures,...

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