Guided tour of the exhibition “The Photographic Impulse: (Dis)placing the Colonial Archive,” with Teresa Flores
National Museum of Natural History and Science | December 15, 2023 On December 15, 2023, several members of the TRANSMAT team and the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum took part in…
TRANSMAT-IN2PAST Seminar | Colonial Cultural Objects: European examples of knowledge, returns and repairs
National Library of Portugal, Auditorium | 6 December, 2023 In this seminar, Lucas Lixinski (University of New South Wales – Sydney, Australia) will focus on current debates about cultural objects…
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum takes part in the Scientific Culture Day celebrations
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | Novembro 24, 2023 The Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in Figueira da Foz participated in the celebrations of the Scientific Culture Day 2023, promoting a guided…
TRANSMAT Project at the 7th Portuguese Meeting on the History of Science and Technology
University of Évora, Colégio do Espírito Santo | 15-17 November, 2023 From 15 to 17 November 2023, the 7th Portuguese Meeting on the History of Science and Technology was held…
Maria Figueira, TRANSMAT research fellow at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | November 17, 2023 Maria Figueira is a research fellow of the TRANSMAT project at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in Figueira da Foz. Her work…
The TRANSMAT project begins collaborative provenance research in partnership with University of São Paulo (Brazil)
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | October 30 and 31, 2023 On 30 and 31 October, part of the TRANSMAT project team met at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum to begin…
TRANSMAT Project at the VII Foro Ibérico de Estudios Museológicos, Ciudad Real (Spain)
Facultad de Letras, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and Museo Provincial de Ciudad Real | 19th and 20th October, 2023 On the 19th and 20th of October 2023, the VII Iberian Forum of Museological…
TRANSMAT workshop with Erasmus Mundus Master’s students
NOVA University of Lisbon | October 19, 2023 History in the Public Sphere is an international master’s program run by the Central European University, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Università degli…
1st International TRANSMAT-IN2PAST Meeting: Documenting Non-European Collections
National Museum of Ethnology | June 22 and 23, 2023 On June 22 and 23, the TRANSMAT – IN2PAST International Meeting “Documenting Non-European Collections” took place at the National Museum…
TRANSMAT’s team welcomes new postdoctoral fellow
Universidade de Évora | Setembro de 2023 In September 2023, TRANSMAT welcomed Catarina Simões as its new postdoctoral fellow. Between 2017 and 2023, she was research fellow at the Museum…
Maria de Fátima Nunes, co-PI of the TRANSMAT project, joins the Lisbon Academy of Sciences
Maria de Fátima Nunes, Vice-President of the IHC and Full Professor of History at the University of Évora, was invited to be Corresponding Academic of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, in…
1st International Meeting TRANSMAT-IN2PAST: Documenting Non-European Collections
National Museum of Ethnology | June 22 and 23, 2023 The 1st International Meeting of the TRANSMAT-IN2PAST Project, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, will take place on…
Working session with the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum team
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | May 9, 2023 On May 9, 2023, a working session took place at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum, in which TRANSMAT project fellow Maria Figueira…
Participation of the TRANSMAT project in the Museology module at the University of Évora
University of Évora | May 4, 2023 On May 4, 2023, members of the TRANSMAT team presented some preliminary results of the project to undergraduate students taking the Museology module…
TRANSMAT team visits the scientific collections of the former IICT and the Tropical Botanical Garden
Tropical Scientific Research Institute | April 10, 2023 On April 10, 2023, the TRANSMAT team visited the ethnographic collection of the former Tropical Scientific Research Institute (IICT). This reserve collection…
Elisabete Pereira, TRANSMAT project PI, takes part in an international discussion program on the future of museums in Africa and Europe
“Elisabete Pereira was one of the researchers selected, among almost 300 applications, to participate in TheMuseumsLab 2023 programme, “a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums…
TRANSMAT establishes partnership with researcher Marília Xavier Cury from the University of São Paulo and Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
In March 2023, the TRANSMAT project established a partnership with researcher Marília Xavier Cury, lecturer at the University of São Paulo and Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (MAE-USP), who became…
Museography for the TRANSMAT Project – the collaboration of the Contemporary History students of the University of Évora
University of Évora | March 9, 2023 On the 9th of March 2023, the students of the Contemporary History Curricular Unit (coordinated by Prof. Fátima Nunes) got in touch with…
Marília Xavier Cury (MAE-USP) on a scientific mission to the National Museum of Archaeology and Santos Rocha Municipal Museum
National Museum of Archaeology, Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | February 8 and March 27, 2023 Marília Xavier Cury, professor and researcher of the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the…
TRANSMAT presented to the Senior University of Figueira da Foz
Santos Rocha Municipal Museum | January 25, 2023 The TRANSMAT project was presented and discussed with students from the Senior University of Figueira da Foz. Maria Figueira, scholarship holder of…