Índia Vanuíre Historical and Pedagogical Museum
Tupã (SP)
Índia Vanuíre Historical and Pedagogical Museum, institution from the
Secretariat of Culture from the State of São Paulo, in Tupã (SP), was founded
in 1966 and gathers one of the most important ethnographic collections of the
country. With about 38 thousand pieces which represent different Brazilian
Indian communities, from the Kayapó to the Yanomámi - including the Kaingang
and the Krenak, people who still inhabit the west region of the State, in the
collection there are hunting, working and domestic objects as well as other ones
for everyday life activities on the Indian lands, besides feathers, ceramic and
objects used in religious rituals.
With a modern architectural design, made of concrete, the building was
built in 1980 by the city founder, Luiz de Souza Leão, especially for being the
first museum of Tupã. After being renovated, it reopened in 2010 with a
revitalized and long-term exhibition and changes inside and outside the
building. By renovating the museum, besides the exhibitions and the storage
areas, the museum also achieved an auditorium for 60 people.
At the new museum exhibition, it is possible to check concepts such as the
interculturality, the diversity and the difference. The first exhibition module
shows the history of the city in a dialogue with the contemporaneous, the
historic and the constitution of the city. The second and third modules show the
Vanuíre Indian lands and the Kaingang and Krenak ethnic groups, with their
culture and resistance. The museum still gathers pieces of information and
objects from other 47 ethnic Indian groups from Brazil. There is also a space
dedicated to the “feather art” and the exhibition of fabric and basketworks, with
multimedia resources texts.
During the whole year, Índia Vanuíre Museum offers free activities, such
as lectures, temporary exhibits, courses, workshops and cultural events. There
are also other projects in the permanent program of the museum, such as
“Every day is the Indian Day”, “Tupã Indian Week”, “International Day of the
Indigenous People” and “Holiday Workshops”, which aim to approach the
everyday life of the Brazilian Indian community and to encourage the spread of
this cultural heritage to the new generations.
Social inclusion of those with disabilities has also been a concern at Índia
Vanuíre Museum since it has been reopened. In 2011, it launched the
accessibility project developed with the museologist and doctor from the USP
Communication and Arts School, Amanda Pinto da Fonseca Tojal. The
proposal includes a tactile mock-up with the 3-D representation of the museum
spaces, multisensory apps especially accessible to the hearing and visuallychallenged public and the audio-description resource in the documentaries and
movies with images and narrations, among others.
Since 2008, the museum has been managed by ACAM Portinari (Cultural
Association for the Support of Casa de Portinari Museum), a Social Culture
Organization, through an agreement with the State Government. Besides the
museum in Tupã, ACAM manages two other museological units in the São
Paulo countryside in a partnership with the Secretariat of Culture from the State
of São Paulo: Casa de Portinari Museum (Brodowski) and Felícia Leirner
Museum/Cláudio Santoro Auditorium (Campos do Jordão), and still supports
the actions of SISEM-SP (State Museum System).
The patron
Vanuíre is considered as the great pacifier of the conflicts between the
white man and the Kaingang, in the west of São Paulo. She, according to
researchers’ report, would have come from Paraná, but for lack of historical
documentation, it is not possible to state where and when she was born.
Vanuíre died in 1918, at the Icatu Kaingang Village, in Braúna city, region of
Araçatuba.
According to reports, as she was tired of seeing her people being
decimated, Vanuíre climbed a ten-metre-tall Cariniana (jequitibá) trunk, where
she would stay from daybreak to sunset, singing peace songs. On the 19 th
March, 1912, she experienced the result of her efforts in aid of the pacification.
In that occasion, ten Kaingang warriors went to the white men camp, as a sign
of peace, and they were received as brothers.
SERVICE:
Índia Vanuíre Historical and Pedagogical Museum
Address: Rua Coroados, nº 521, Centro – Tupã (SP) – CEP: 17 600-010
Phone: (14) 3491.2333
Working Times: from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9.00 to 17.00
Entrance fee: free
[email protected]
www.museuindiavanuire.org.br
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Press Information
Núcleo da Notícia Comunicação Corporativa:
Phone. (16) 3237-7367/68
Dayane Malta – (16) 9233-3014
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Juliana Dias - (16) 9233-1823
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André Luís Rezende – (16) 8142-4299
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Secretariat of Culture from the State of São Paulo:
Renata Beltrão – (11) 2627-8164
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Giulianna Correia - (11) 2627-8243
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