Do deart ao muna: o surgimento do Museu Universitário de Arte a partir das coleções de arte do Departamento de Artes Plásticas.

Abstract

With an interdisciplinary approach, this research combines historical and archival methods to investigate the birth of the University Art Museum (MUnA), at the Federal University of Uberlândia, based on the artistic collection of the Department of Plastic Arts. To do this, we first analyze the history of the department, from its creation in 1972 until the mid-1990s, and its relationship with the university methodological tripod of teaching-research-extension throughout its trajectory. After this moment, we then investigate the origins, sources and means of acquiring the works in this collection and the way in which this reverberated in the idealization and implementation of the museum in the 1990s. Furthermore, this work also emphasizes the continuous need for research and documentation to preserve the historical and cultural integrity of the MUnA’s collection.