Um acervo arqueológico no museu de arte: o Museu Victor Meirelles e a coleção da Casa Natal

Abstract

The Victor Meirelles Museum (MVM), a unit of the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), is an art museum that houses works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and is located in the house where the artist from Santa Catarina was born. The historic building, a typical Luso-Brazilian construction built between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, underwent different renovation and restoration interventions. In the architectural interventions of 2001 and 2016, the archaeological research generated two collections, one of which is in the process of being incorporated by the Victor Meirelles Museum. The purpose of this article is to discuss the challenges of receiving an archaeological collection in an art museum, based on the institutional documents for the management of the MVM collection. It is understood, based on the analyzed elements, that the incorporation of the collection into the Museum's collection is configured as a paradigm shift, as it involves a significant reformulation of institutional guidelines, being, however, an acquisition of expressive potential for the Museum , mainly within the scope of Educational and Cultural, Research and Exhibitions Programmes.