Abstract
In museology, a field constituted predominantly by women in Brazil, the role of these professionals has been subjected to male tutelage throughout the discipline's history, and reproduced and naturalized in museums. The article uses a historic analysis to reveal the subversion of male domination in the academic field of Museology through the changing role of women museologists in the country in the 20th century. The reflections on the past allow us to consider gender relations in museology and reveal the power relations historically constructed in this field. We also use a queer perspective to consider museology, completely subverting the identity categories reproduced in museums.
Museums; Museology; Women; Gender; Queer theory
