New blog - Museu de Arqueologia (Brazil)

Museu de Arqueologia

Thanks to Paula Veiga for the news that a new blog has been established for the Museu de Arqueologia in Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brazil, which displays replicas of ancient Egyptian objects. The posts are accompanied by some good photographs of the exhibits, so even if you don't speak a word of Portuguese you may find it of interest.

The first two posts, available from the above address are:
A II Exposição Permanente: Egito Antigo Vida e Imortalidade (with lots of good photographs) and ProjetoToth de Educação e Cultura

An article in April on the ANBA website by Isaura Daniel, featured on an earlier post, described the museum. Here's an extract:

The Archaeology Museum has in exhibition 260 replicas of objects from the birth of Ancient Egypt. They are from small amulets to larger items, like a bust of Nefertiti or a reproduction of a sarcophagus that is in the British Museum. The site also houses an original object and a mask of a mummy from the second century B.C.

According to Egyptologist Moacir Elias Santos, the owner of the museum, the mask was acquired in France and donated to the museum. The existing information about the object is that it is a male mask made in papyrus, gypsum and linen. The replicas that are part of the museum's collection were made by artist Eduardo Vilela and also by Santos himself. The museum, in reality, has a collection of over 600 objects, but only some of them are being exhibited. The site has two rooms covering a total of 60 square metres.

It all began with the museum owner's curiosity about Egypt.