Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro is the new director of the National Museum of Ethnology
Jan 3, 2025 | News

As 2024 drew to a close, Museums and Monuments in Portugal announced the appointment of Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro as the new director of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon.
The IHC researcher was previously an employee of the Culture Directorate of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa and a visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has been working in the fields of museology, heritage and social development, material culture, and ethnoarchaeology.
He will now take over as director of the National Museum of Ethnology on a three-year commission. Created in 1965, the National Museum of Ethnology has a collection of around 40,000 objects from different parts of the world, but with a greater representation of Portugal and its former colonies. In 2016, it incorporated the collection of the Museum of Popular Art.
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