Taking Regina Abreu's book, A fabricação do imortal: memória, história e estratégias de consagração no Brasil, as a starting point, the A. discusses the main approaches to the issues of nationalism and memory, The core of this book is the grant ma de to the National History Museum in 1936 by Miguel Calmon du Pin of his collection which is analysed according to the strategies of personal consecration and to the vectors for the cultural construction of "brasilidade" (Brazilianness").
Historical colletions; Hiswrical museums; Miguel Calmom; Museu Histórico Nacional