Report on

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 8-17 August 2013

Annissa Gultom, Jakarta, October 2013

Table of content
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ICOM Rio 2013 Presentation on Papua Museums Off site activities :
Museu Nacional Museu Da Mare Church Saint Francis of Penance Museu de Arte do Rio

Other Indonesian delegates International networking

Rios Landscape
In short, Rio is a big city with more development on the coasts and backed by favela (slum) areas on the hills.

Top: (left) Pao de acucar (Sugar Loaf) seen from Copacabana beach, (right) the only non-museum site visit Below: (left) Favelas on the hills of Copacabana (right) Copacabana beach in the background is right in front of the favela

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The oldest building row in Rio, from 1600s

Public transportation via bus is the most popular one

Central area of Rio, where protests/riots sometimes started

Eduardo Scissorhand, one of many street performer

Rio, its legacy, its safety

Confetaria Colombo, a must visit dessert & coffee place in Rio that survived from the 16th AD. Even in this nice place, the waiter had to secure our bags with plastic safety ban to avoid theft. Its Rio.

Cidades des Art (City of the Art), Barra di Tijuca

Left: Cidades des Art (City of Art) is a new established building in Barra di Tijuca, suburb area of Rio. ICOM Rio 2013 is the first event held in this building Below: Sunset in Barra di Tijuca

ICOM Rio 2013

A general conference done every three years held by and for museum community from all over the world. ICOM has a consultative status with UNESCO central office in Paris. Themes ranged from research, museum content development, communication up to legal issues

ICOM, Rio flavour

Favela inspired art and works can be easily found in the city. ICOM Rio invites a group of young Brazillians to make their own Favela inspired art on a wall in the expo area

A Few Key Theme Presentations

Museum Role

Memory Collecting

Museum Budgeting

Art & Culture Disputes Resolution

A Few Key Theme Presentations

Study case on programming: London Museums History of the World in 100 Objects

Study case on exhibition: Berlin Jewish Museums Ask A Jew

Conservation in Museums

Presentation on Papua Museums

Presented by Annissa Gultom at the ICME (International Committee of Museum of Ethnography) forum in ICOM Rio 2013 Based on two study cases: West Papua Provincial Museum planning and Noken Museum of Jayapura, Papua

Off Site Activities

Off site activities are one of the great thing about ICOM. Through group site visit, museum professionals discuss, compare and learn Brazillian museums current practice. The knowledge benefited from this then brought back to richen each owns local museums. Below are the sites visited in the occasion:

Museu Nacional Museu Da Mare Church Saint Francis of Penance Museu de Arte do Rio Centro Central Banco Brasilia Casa Franca Brasilia

Museu Nacional

The oldest museum in Brazil. Consist of Brazil ethnological identity, dinosaurs and meteorites!

Mummies!

Museu Nacional has one of the great collection of mummified specimens of South America. Gory but very interesting

Indonesian / Brazillian?

Top : oil lamps from terracotta and bronze, similar with the ones found from 13th -15th AD sites in Java.

Below right: Weaponry & drums from Papua (but they put Java on the label)

> Below left: Stone axe and scorched stone used to sharpen the tool. Similar ones found still currently used in Papua

Additional knowledge:
Samples of Interesting Exhibit Design

Museu Da Mare
Off site activities :
Museu Nacional Museu Da Mare Church Saint Francis of Penance Museu de Arte do Rio

Other Indonesian delegates International networking

Communal Museum

Museu du Mare, located in Favela (slum) area of Mare. This communalcurating museum was built by the people of Mare as an expression of their social culture adaptation on their way of life.

Communal Curating

Unlike conventional museums, this museum collects everyday life items that compose the identity of the people in Mare.

Picture of Everyday Favela (slum) Life

Top: casting of holed walls from people houses. Reflecting their fear of gunfire casualties Other: interior of a Favela house

Favela du Mare

Walking through the slum area of Mare

Church Saint Francis of Penance

One of the oldest church in Rio that has been in conservation in the last 5 yras. It has been continuously used for religious activities and also museum

Museu de Arte do Rio

A refreshed old museum with an addition of modern style building behind it

A very good reference for development of Museum Nasional Indonesia, for it has similar issue on the use of old protected building as museum

Additional knowledge: Reference for the ongoing study of Museum Nasional Indonesia development

Favela Installation
This piece is not only a miniature, but also a canvas showing peoples concerns and questions to the government, written on them

Imagina Rio

An interesting way of showing Rio de Janeiro visual documentation from 16th AD to now

Centro Central Banco Brasilia

(Museum of) Brazilian Central Bank, considered as one of the least-boring museum in Rio. Open untill 9 pm, its exhibit galleries showing contemporary installations, religious collection and permanent exhibit on currency. The place is a great model of public space equipped with caf, book store and a edukids corner.

Religious collections

Local expression of Christ symbolism

Galeria de Valores
(Money/Currency Room)

Indonesian Currency collection in Galeria de Valores

Casa Franca Brasilia

Casa Franca Brasilia (House of French Brazillians) is a historic house turn into temporary exhibit area. At the time, a Moor inspired installation of terracota structure was on show

Other Indonesian Delegates

4 professionals from Museum Nasional Indonesia (pictured are Ibu Ekowati and Ibu Ita Yulita, both conservators) 3 professionals from Galeri Nasional 3 professionals from Museum Bank Indonesia

International Networking

Southeast Asian and larger scope Asian regions museum professionals

ICME Network (pictured the forum assembly)

Other ICOM members worldwide (pictured with the Director of Art Museum of Colombia, where Familia is part of their collection, an art installation done by Carlos Castro, a colleague from Fulbright network)

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