To Counter-Colonise Brazilian History Instead Of Decolonising It: On The Problematics Around Decolonisation In Museological Exhibitions

Abstract

An observation from the perspective of Social and Experimental Museology on the interventions carried out in the long-term exhibitions at the Museu Histórico Nacional in Rio de Janeiro as part of the project “Decolonial Brazil: Other Stories.” This article analyses the agents involved in the project, the history and context in which the national museum is situated, and introduces Nêgo Bispo's concept of ‘Counter-colonisation’ to highlight museological processes as tools for questioning the past and experimenting in the present. Keywords: Museology; Brazilian History; Decolonialism; Experimental-Museology; Counter-Colonisatio