RG Coordinator

Hélia Marçal 1

 

Integrated Researchers

Adelaide Duarte	Alexandra Curvelo 2	Ana Janeiro	Clara Camacho	Dóris Santos
Elsa Peralta	Emília Ferreira	Filipa Coimbra	Francisca Listopad	Helena Barranha
Hugo Xavier	Isabel Falcão	Joana d’Oliva Monteiro	Luís Soares	Luísa Duarte Santos
Margarida Elias 3	Maria João Vilhena de Carvalho 2	Patrícia Roque Martins	Ramiro Gonçalves	Rita Macedo
Sandra Leandro	Sandra Vieira Jürgens	Sara Antónia Matos	Susana S. Martins

 

Collaborating Researchers

Andreia Magalhães Correia	Carlos Silveira	Joana Baião	Leonor de Oliveira	Lígia Afonso
Mariana Carrolo	Mariana Roquette Teixeira	Raquel Henriques da Silva 3	Rita Maia Gomes	Sandra Santos
Stefanie Gil Franco

¹ also integrates the RG ArtTHC

² also integrates the RG Pre-Modern 

³ also integrates the RG LxSt

 

Postgraduate Students

Ana Lanita	Cláudia Furtado	Daniela Simões	Elena Komissarova	Francisco Cambim
Gabriel Marques	Inês Silvestre	Jorge Gonçalves da Costa	Maria M. Gomes	Mariana Passos
Marta Branco Guerreiro	Pedro Vaz	Raquel Pereira	Rita Cêpa	Sara Beirão
Sofia Caetano	Vitória Capote

 

External Collaborators

Carolina Palma da Silva | Lúcia Almeida Matos

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Keywords

Exhibition: history and practice

Safeguarding unstable archives

Art Markets and Collecting

Digital Humanities, Sustainability and Accessibility

 

Description

MuSt – Museum Studies is a research group launched in 2007, aiming to create a collaborative academic space that promotes discussion and activity related to museum studies in, and from, Portugal. Gathering an open team of scholars from diverse backgrounds, the group has continually grown since its inception, and now comprises more than 30 full and collaborating members, including professors, fellows, contract researchers, and museum experts and professionals. Its vitality is also reflected in the considerable number of doctoral researchers (currently 17) conducting funded research projects, most of which involve fellowships in non-academic environments, such as museums and cultural institutions.

MuSt is a vibrant and cohesive group: recent results are regularly shared among researchers at all career levels during the internal meetings ‘MuSt Seminars’, as well as at the ‘Iberian Forum for Museum Studies’, an annual conference organised in various cities across Portugal and Spain, and of which MuSt has been an active (co-)organiser since 2018. The group also hosts 2 Clusters: ‘Art Market and Collecting’ and ‘Art, Museums and Digital Cultures’.

Our project-driven research fosters rigorous inquiries in the expanded field of museum studies, covering topics as varied as the history and theory of museums, exhibitions histories, curatorship, public policies for art and culture, female creativity and visibility, national and international representations, art markets, collections, unstable archives, decolonial approaches for culture, inclusion and disability studies, documentation of contemporary art, photographic and early media heritage, virtual museology and digital humanities.

In recent years, the group has successfully attracted funding for various local and international projects, nurturing extensive partnerships and long-term collaborations with multiple entities and stakeholders. Our members have also played active roles in curating and providing scientific advice for over 30 exhibitions in different cities throughout Portugal.

Currently, the group conducts research with a strong international focus, through cross-cultural collaborations, networks, and conferences. Moreover, several MuSt members lead or contribute to graduate and postgraduate courses on art and museology at various universities, namely at NOVA-FCSH, broadening higher education programmes, and shaping new fields of research.