Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo
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The Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) is a department of the University of São Paulo.[1] Focused on research, teaching, and cultural and scientific diffusion. It was created in 1989, from the dismemberment of the archeology and ethnology sectors of the Museu Paulista, to which the collections of the Institute of Prehistory of USP (the former museum of the same name of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (FFLCH)) and the Plínio Ayrosa Collection were merged.[2][3] It is located in Cidade Universitária (campus), in the West Zone of São Paulo.[1]
Type | Archeology, Ethnology, African Art |
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Inauguration | 1989 |
Director | Paulo Antonio Dantas de Blasis |
Website | http://www.mae.usp.br/ |
Country | Brazil |
City | São Paulo |
Coordinates | 23°33′33″S 46°44′29″W |
The museum has one of the largest collections of archeological and ethnographic artifacts in Brazil, consisting of more than one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) pieces, formed through field collections, excavations, purchases, exchanges, loans, and donations since the end of the 19th century.[2] The archeological collection covers civilizations from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, pre-Columbian America, and especially pre-colonial Brazil. The ethnographic collection includes pieces related to African and Afro-Brazilian populations and indigenous peoples from all regions of Brazil. It also has a vast library, with about 60,000 volumes, including books, catalogs, doctoral theses, periodicals, and rare works.[2][4][5]
MAE offers extension courses and optional subjects for undergraduate students. At the graduate level, it maintains the archeology Program for undergraduates in general, training professionals in the areas of prehistoric and historic archeology and classical archeology. It promotes exhibitions and educational programs aimed at the community in general. The research is developed in the form of office, field and laboratory activities, in partnership with several Brazilian and foreign institutions.[6] It maintains the Mário Neme Regional Center for Archeological Research, in the city of Piraju, and the Iguape Regional Museum, in Vale do Ribeira, as logistic and operational support centers for field research.[4] It also has links with the Centro de Arqueologia Biomas da Amazônia, in the municipality of Iranduba, in conjunction with the State University of Amazonas.[7] Between 1991 and 2011, it regularly published the Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia,[4] in print and with annual periodicity, but since 2012, the journal became biannual, in electronic format and with open access through the Journal Portal of USP.