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Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia

São Paulo, Brazil

Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia

The Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) is a department of the University of São Paulo. Focused on research, teaching, and cultural and scientific diffusion. It was created in 1989, from the dismemberment of the archeology and ethnology sectors of the Museu Pa

ulista, to which the collections of the Institute of Prehistory of USP (the former museum of the same name of the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Human Sciences (FFLCH)) and the Plínio Ayrosa Collection were merged. It is located in Cidade Universitária (campus), in the West Zone of São Paulo. The museum has one of the largest collections of archeological and ethnographic artifacts in Brazil, consisting of more than one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) pieces, formed through field collections, excavations, purchases, exchanges, loans, and donations since the end of the 19th century. The archeological collection covers civilizations from the Mediterranean and the Middle East, pre-Columbian America, and especially pre-colonial Brazil. The ethnographic collection includes pieces related to African and Afro-Brazilian populations and indigenous peoples from all regions of Brazil. It also...

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