Opening Lecture – Thursday 7th November

On Thursday 7th November, 6pm a guest lecture will be held by Professor Bruno Brulon Soares from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bruno has just been elected President of ICOM’s museology group ICOFOM and has been working on community museums in the cultural landscape of Rio. In the frame of ICOFOM, MGCI has been working together on ideas around museums, community and decolonisation. In St Andrews, he will discuss his research into Favela museums as well as recent interviews amongst Afro-Caribbean community museums in Brazil. 6pm, Saunders Room, School of Art History, 79 North Street.

Museum of Removals, in Vila Autódromo, Rio de Janeiro (Museu das Remoções, Rio de Janeiro, 2019).