Repensar o museu e a museologia a partir da prática colaborativa com os povos indígenas: Entrevista com Marília Xavier Cury.

Brazilian museologist Marília Xavier Cury has a well-known career in both academia and museum practice, working as a professor and researcher at the Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo (Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/University of São Paulo). She is currently working on a research project that combines the study of Portuguese and Brazilian museum collections, which is why this interview was so timely. In a virtual conversation conducted by Elisa Noronha and Patrícia Roque Martins, several topics were discussed. Cury shared an overview of her collaborative experience with indigenous peoples in Brazil. In particular, she talked about her understanding of the place of indigenous peoples in museological discourses and practices, pointing out the encounters and tensions that characterise today’s museological landscape. She also looked at the role of decolonising museums and museology, and the need to expand the possibilities for dialogue and work beyond the more traditional models. She identified collaborative experiences and exhibition narratives that relate some of the relationships she has established between Portugal and Brazil in the field of archaeological and ethnographic collections. In the last part of the interview, Cury proposes that museology should be more open to the “other”, a museology that is necessarily more collaborative, more experimental, and on the importance of developing more analytical and critical approaches, also emphasising the role of postgraduate training in museology in this context.