Biography

She is currently a PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science – Museology at the University of Évora. She defended her dissertation “The place of Archives in the Museum: traces of a relationship”, MA in Documentation and Information Sciences at the University of Lisbon in 2019. She also has an MA in Heritage Studies, from the Universidade Aberta, which she completed in 2013; a degree in Art Expertise (1994-1995) and a bachelor’s degree in conservation and restoration, specializing in graphic documents, which she completed in 1994.

Her professional life has always been linked to the conservation of graphic document collections (books and single documents), both at the National Library of Portugal (1995-2021), where she held management positions; and at the MNAA – Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (2021-present), where she is also responsible for preventive conservation programs and the inventorying of the engraving and prints collection. At the same time, she has carried out training courses for librarians and archivists in the implementation of preventive conservation programs in libraries and archives and has been part of the Core Team of the APOYOnline association since 2020, where she co-coordinates the Portuguese translation group. She is interested in the management of collections and their preservation; with their dissemination and with sustainable methods of promoting the conservation of heritage collections.

Research fields

• Collection management
• Museology
• Engravings
• Conservation

Selected publications

• Pressato, Miriam, Teresa Lança, Catarina Miguel, António Candeias & Sara Valadas. “The use of in situ non-invasive techniques as powerful tools in the investigation of eighteenth century Chinese wallpapers from the National Museum of Ancient Art—Lisbon,” The European Physical Journal Plus 138 (2023): 138-271. [link]🔓
• Ruivo, Teresa Lança. “Sintesis de la teses de maestría: El lugar de los archivos en el museo – Rastros de una relación,” Anuario Escuela de Archivología 11 (2019): 219-226. [link]🔓
• Feijão, Maria Joaquina & Teresa Lança. “Documentos cartográficos: retrospetiva da sua consevação na Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal,” Revista Catalana de Geografia 24 (2019). [link]🔓
• Ruivo, Teresa Lança. “Impressões do Sagrado: estudo de uma coleção privada de registos de Santos,” ARTis ON 3 (2016): 121-128. [link]🔓

Main projects

• “Do inventário ao museu — o caso de Ernesto Soares (1887-1966)” [From inventory to museum – the case of Ernesto Soares (1887-1966)] — Deconstructed Discourses] — PhD thesis to be presented to the University of Évora, supervised by Ana Cristina Martins (IHC — Universidade de Évora) and Alexandra Markl (Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga).