Revised wall labels that highlight the "discursive strategies of silencing the history of slavery in Brazil" and how museums have been complicit in the process of silencing.
Located on the western slope of the Morro da Conceição, this Hanging Garden of Valongo (Jardim Suspenso do Valongo), called so because it sits 7 meters above street level, was built in 1906 and designed as a romantic garden by the landscape architect…
Pedra do Sal (Rock of Salt) was originally the site of a quilombo village, and today, an association called the Community Descendents of the Quilombos of Pedra do Sal lives there. Historically, it has also been the center of samba and choro music,…
In the picture: Dr. Leandro Santanna (director of MUHCAB), Dr. Aline Montenegro (former director of the Museu Historico Nacional), Dr. Monica Lima (professor of History at the UFRJ), Hermann von Hesse, Molly Morgan, Lynne Lee