National Museum of Ethnology
The National Museum of Ethnology—Museu Nacional de Etnologia—was founded to keep ethnographic knowledge in motion, not just on display. In 1965, Jorge Dias and his team started the Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar, helping introduce social anthropology to Portugal, and that effort grew into collections of about 42,000 objects. Today the museum manages more than 40,000 objects from Africa, Asia, and South America, alongside a separate collection of Portuguese folk art and other ethnographic heritage. This work also has a second, distinctly Portuguese layer: one department contains 11,600 objects from the Popular Art Museum, largely assembled in the 1930s and early 1940s for exhibitions tied to the military dictatorship and the Estado Novo regime. The museum building opened in 1976, was extended in 2000, and after the Popular Art Museum’s collections transferred, the two became a single museum. …
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