24th National Museum Week Museums uniting a divided world

The 24th National Museum Week of IBRAM, by adopting the theme ‘Museums Uniting a Divided World,’ invites museum institutions to reflect on their role in a global scenario marked by social inequalities, extremism, and competing narratives.

In this context, museums assert themselves as spaces for dialogue, listening, and the collective construction of histories, seeking to bring together different social and cultural groups within the contexts in which they operate.

Exhibitions, seminars, workshops, guided visits, and educational activities held between May 18 and 24 provide concrete opportunities to reaffirm the museum as a public space for civic engagement and for the symbolic redistribution of the power to tell stories.

The 24th National Museum Week is therefore both an invitation and a challenge: to turn principles into practice, to transform commitments into structural actions, and to reaffirm, in everyday institutional life, that the museum is a living, critical, and essential space for building a plural, democratic society committed to human dignity.

Eventos

Immersion
Surreal Ocean
We bid farewell to the exhibition ‘Ocean - the world is an archipelago’ by...
16may2026
11h
Temporary Exhibition
All ages
Immersion
Geopoetics of the waters
How many seas live within us? Through photographs, poems, and movement, we...
19may2026
10h30
Temporary Exhibition
All ages
Mediated Visit
Televisit Oceans uniting the world
In dialogue with the theme of Museum Week, ‘Museums uniting a divided...
19may2026
17h
TikTok
All ages
Immersion
Hidden in the depths
The education team invites the public to imagine beings that exist in the...
21may2026
15h
Life Cube
All ages
Workshop
Preservation of Digital Collections with Museu da Pessoa
The Digital Collections Preservation Workshop, in partnership with Museu da...
22may2026
09h3012h30
Observatory of Tomorrow
from 16 years old
Conversation Circle
Who Tells the Story? Collections and Democratization
In line with the 24th National Museum Week, promoted by IBRAM, the conversation...
22may2026
14h
Observatory of Tomorrow
from 12 years old
Immersion
Words that unite worlds
In dialogue with the games developed by Paulo Freire, the education.al team of...
22may2026
15h
Main exhibition
All ages
Mediated Visit
Bike Ride Traces of the Past: from the territory to the museum
In Museum Week 2026, we will take a bike ride to highlight the historical and...
23may2026
09h
Museu do Amanhã
from 18 years old
Immersion
Geopoetics of the waters
How many seas live within us? Through photographs, poems, and movement, we...
23may2026
15h
Main exhibition
All ages
Workshop
Tomorrow's Stories The Canoe Snake and the Creation of the World
Have you ever heard of a being capable of creating rivers and populating the...
24may2026
14h30
Educational Space
from 5 years old