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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
8-17 August 2013
Report on
Annissa Gultom,
Jakarta October 2013
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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
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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) theonly non-museum site visit
Below: (left) Favelas on thehills of Copacabana (right)Copacabana beach in thebackground is right in front ofthe favela
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The oldest building row in
Rio, from 1600s
Eduardo Scissorhand, one of
man street erformer
Central area of Rio, where
protests/riots sometimes started
Public transportation via
bus is the most popular one
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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 waiterhad to secure our bags with
plastic safety ban to avoid theft.
Its Rio.
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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
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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 arton a wall in the expo area
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A Few Key Theme Presentations
Museum Role
Art & Culture Disputes ResolutionMuseum Budgeting
Memory Collecting
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A Few Key Theme Presentations
Study case on programming:
London Museums History
of the World in 100 Objects
Conservation in Museums
Study case on exhibition:
Berlin Jewish Museums
Ask A Jew
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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
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Off Site Activities
Off site activities are one of the great thing about ICOM. Through groupsite visit, museum professionals discuss, compare and learn Brazillianmuseums 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
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Mummies!
Museu Nacional has one
of the great collection of
mummified specimens of
South America.
Gory but very interesting
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Indonesian / Brazillian?
Top : oil lamps from terracotta andbronze, similar with the ones found
from 13th -15th AD sites in Java.
Below right: Weaponry & drums fromPapua (but they put Java on the label)
>Below left: Stoneaxe and scorchedstone used tosharpen the tool.Similar ones foundstill currently usedin Papua
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Additional knowledge:Samples of Interesting Exhibit Design
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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
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Communal Museum
Museu du Mare, located in Favela
(slum) area of Mare. This communal-
curating museum was built by the
people of Mare as an expression of
their social culture adaptation on
their way of life.
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Communal Curating
Unlikeconventional
museums, this
museum collects
everyday life items
that compose the
identity of the
people in Mare.
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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
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Favela du Mare
Walking through the
slum area of Mare
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Church Saint Francis of Penance
One of the oldest church in
Rio that has been in
conservation in the last 5yras. It has been
continuously used for
religious activities and also
museum
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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
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Additional knowledge:
Reference for the ongoing study of Museum
Nasional Indonesia development
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Favela Installation
This piece is not only a miniature,
but also a canvas showing peoples
concerns and questions to the
government, written on them
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Imagina Rio
An interesting wayof showing Rio de
Janeiro visual
documentation
from 16th AD to now
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Centro Central Banco Brasilia
(Museum of) Brazilian CentralBank, considered as one of theleast-boring museum in Rio.
Open untill 9 pm, its exhibitgalleries showing contemporaryinstallations, religious collectionand permanent exhibit oncurrency. The place is a greatmodel of public space equippedwith caf, book store and a edu-kids corner.
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Religious collections
Local expression of Christ symbolism
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Galeria de Valores(Money/Currency Room)
Indonesian Currency collection in Galeria de Valores
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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
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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
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International Networking
Southeast Asian and larger scope Asian regionsmuseum professionals
ICME Network (pictured the forum assembly)
Other ICOM members worldwide (pictured withthe Director of Art Museum of Colombia, whereFamilia is part of their collection, an artinstallation done by Carlos Castro, a colleaguefrom Fulbright network)
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