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Address:
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso/ICHS - Av. Fernando Corrêa da Costa s. n. - Coxipó, CEP 78.060-900 - Cuiabá - Mato Grosso - Brasil
Opening Hours:
Tue-Fri: 07:30h to 11:30h & 13:30 to 17:30h
Sat-Sun: 07:30h to11:30h
Contact:
mrondon@cpd.ufmt.br
Links:
Museu Rondon
Federal University of Mato Grosso
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Description:
The Rondon Museum has sought to set up out-reach projects wich involve the region´s non-indigenous population, acting as a vehicle for information and the formation of a new mentality towards indigenous people-nations based on a mutual respect for diversity. As a departmental body at the Mato Grosso Federal University, it was founded in 1972 as a centre for the study, research and propagation of indigenous cultures within Mato Grosso. The museum takes its name by way of tribute of the determination of a former Matogrossense military figure Marechal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, in his defense of indigenous rights.
With an average annual intake of some 6 thousand visitors, the Rondon Museum collection today holds 1.000 pieces including feathered adornments, clothing, weapons, ritual magic artefacts, ceramic pieces, musical instruments, woven articles, braided works, utensils, etc, as well as photographic examples of daily life in the Indian villages. The collection was the result of working in close proximity with the respective Indian people-nations, with traditional pieces collected directly from the actual villages. Within the Rondon Museum the visitor is placed in the singular context of the intimacy of the indigenous home with the sparse distribution of typical objects such as hanging hammocks, beaten earthern-floor, firewood and the fireplace. Beside the museum itself, amongst the coconut trees and beneath typical local Savannah vegetation, the Indians have reconstructed a typical indigenous house, an oval Xinguano example wich stands as a symbol to the identity of the Bakairi Indians.
(from the Museum's website)
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