RG Coordinator

Susana S. Martins

 

Integrated Researchers

Adelaide Duarte	Ana Janeiro	Clara Camacho	Dóris Santos	Emília Ferreira
Helena Barranha	Hugo Xavier	Joana d’Oliva Monteiro	Lúcia Matos	Luís Soares
Luísa Duarte Santos	Patrícia Roque Martins	Rita Macedo	Sandra Leandro	Sandra Vieira Jürgens
Sara Antónia Matos	Stefanie Gil Franco

 

Collaborating Researchers

Carlos Silveira	Isabel Falcão	Leonor de Oliveira	Mariana Carrolo	Mariana Roquette Teixeira
Sandra Santos

 

Non-PhD Researchers

Ana Lanita	Cláudia Furtado	Daniela Simões	Filipa Coimbra	Francisca Listopad
Francisco Cambim	Gabriel Marques	Inês Silvestre	Jorge Costa	Marta Branco Guerreiro
Rita Maia Gomes

 

Keywords

Exhibition Histories and Documentation

Art Market and Collecting

New Models for Curatorship

Safeguarding Unstable Archives

 

Description

The research group MuSt – Museum Studies was launched in 2007, by Raquel Henriques da Silva (NOVA FCSH) and Lúcia Matos (Universidade do Porto), aiming at creating an important and necessary academic space for Museum Studies in Portugal. The group has constantly grown since its creation, and it now comprises a team of more than 25 doctorate researchers, including professors, postdoctoral fellows and museum experts and professionals. Its vitality is also reflected in a large number of junior and doctoral researchers (currently 10).
Despite its diversity, MuSt is a cohesive group: recent results are regularly shared amongst researchers at all career levels in the Annual Group Meeting that takes place by turns in Lisbon or Porto. Coordinated by Susana Martins, MuSt follows a project-based organisation and also hosts 2 recently formed Clusters: ‘Art Market and Collecting’ and ‘Curating Contemporary Cultures’.

Research-wise, MuSt promotes rigorous, high-level inquiries in the expanded field of museum studies. Its activities cover topics as different as the history and theory of museums and exhibitions, artistic and museological policies, national representations in international events, documentation of contemporary art, photography and identity on display, art market and collections, virtual museology, curatorship or digital humanities. In the past years, the group has been able to successfully attract project partners from key society spheres and secure multi-source funding.

MuSt focuses on the following objectives: a) reinforce internationalization levels, through new partnerships, networks, and international conferences; b) increase the rate and the ambition of projects submission; c) foster institutional collaboration, namely with museums and collections; d) improve the strategy of scientific publication; e) bridge the gap between university and society; f) encourage participation of researchers in teaching and supervision.