The Vale Cultural Institute is part of the 19th National Week of Museums, through the webinar “Cultural Spaces – the future of the recent past?”, among other actions, in conjunction with its own museums and cultural centers – Museu Vale (ES) , Minas Gerais Vale Memorial (MG), Vale Maranhão Cultural Center (MA) and Canaã dos Carajás Culture House (PA). The free online event will take place on May 18th and 20th, at 5 pm, on YouTube at Instituto Cultural Vale . The webinar aims to invite the public to reflect, together with guests from different areas, on the role of cultural institutions in the face of the new reality imposed by the pandemic and their role in the territories where they are located. On Tuesday, the 18th, the conversation will include the participation of neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro and museologist Cícero Almeida. And on Thursday, 20th, it will bring UNIRIO museology professor Bruno Brulon and art curator Adélia Borges. The mediation will be done by the philosopher Fernando Pessoa, who participates in the CNPq research line “Thought and Language”, with studies in Nietzsche and Heidegger, mainly in the themes of language, truth, freedom, art and poetry. Given the pandemic and for the new times to come, questions such as: what are the possible futures for cultural institutions and for museums in particular? Who do you dialogue with? What memories, material or immaterial, are at stake? What is the role of technology and media in the forms of dialogue? What about artists and cultural producers? How have your participations been and how can they be? “The Instituto Cultural Vale, together with its museums and cultural centers, embraces the challenge of promoting reflection and debate on the readjustment of practices and the resilience necessary for the current moment, the central theme of the National Museum Week. Keeping the dialogue alive about the role of cultural institutions is essential, today and always, for the maintenance of heritage and memory, enabling more people to experience the culture, expand their knowledge and their vision of the world”, says Christiana Saldanha, manager of the Instituto Cultural Vale. In addition to the webinar, throughout the month of May, the four museums and cultural centers of Instituto Cultural Vale have exclusive programming that integrates the National Museum Week with workshops and reflections on the importance of these cultural spaces for the public. The complete schedule of spaces can be accessed at the Institutoculturalvale.org and on the websites of the cultural institutions – Vale Museum, Vale Minas Gerais Memorial , Vale Maranhão Cultural Center and Canaã dos Carajás Culture House . The Instituto Cultural Vale is present in 35 museums and cultural centers in Brazil through sponsorship of cultural spaces, exhibitions, cultural exchanges, safeguarding collections and educational programs, via the Federal Law for Cultural Incentives. SCHEDULE 05/18 – The Museum, the subjects and memory in current times We are currently experiencing ontological and relational changes based on the increasingly pressing virtual experience. As in every period of transition, the aim is to locate old and new forms of human activity and their institutional configurations. The meeting between the museologist Cicero de Almeida and the neuroscientist Sidarta Ribeiro will shed light on some aspects of this universe of change. Participants: Sidarta Ribeiro is a professor of Neurosciences and vice-director of the Instituto do Cérebro at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Bachelor in Biology from the University of Brasília (1993), Master in Biophysics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1994) and Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the Rockefeller University (2000), with a post-doctorate in Neurophysiology from Duke University (2005). He has experience in neuroethology, molecular neurobiology and systems neurophysiology, with an interest in the following topics: memory, sleep and dreams; neuronal plasticity; vocal communication; symbolic competence in non-human animals; computer psychiatry; neuroeducation; psychedelics and drug policy. Director of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science 2018-2021. From 2009 to 2011, he served as secretary of the Brazilian Society of Neurosciences and Behavior. From 2011 to 2015, he served as coordinator of the Brazilian committee of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences. Since 2011 he has been a member of the steering committee of the Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences (LA School). Senior Associate Researcher at FAPESP’s Research Center for Innovation and Dissemination in Neuromathematics. Scientific Coordinator of the Brazilian Drug Policy Platform, and member of the advisory board of the Chacruna Institute of Medicinal Psychedelic Plants. Author of over 100 scientific articles and 5 science and fiction books. Cícero Antônio F. de Almeida is a museologist, with a master’s degree in Social Memory from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro-UNIRIO, and a doctoral candidate in History, Politics and Cultural Goods from the CPDOC/Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He is a professor at the Department of Museological Studies and Processes at UNIRIO and at the MBA in Museum Management at Candido Mendes/Brazilian Association of Cultural Management-ABGC, and member of the Advisory Board of ABGC. He was executive director of the Centro Cultural Justiça Federal and of the Department of Museum Processes at the Instituto Brasileiro de Museus. 05/20 – Making and Exhibiting – possibilities and agencies in times of crisis To understand the horizons that open up for new ways of making and exhibiting, we invite Bruno Brulon and Adélia Borges, who will talk about their experiences and perceptions of confrontation and change, under the limitations of the current and post-pandemic period. Participants: Bruno Brulon is professor of Museology at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and professor of the Graduate Program in Museology and Heritage (UNIRIO/MAST). Doctor in Anthropology (2012) and in History (2019) both degrees from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). He coordinates the Experimental Museology and Image Research Group (MEI) since 2014 and the Experimental Museology Laboratory (LAMEX) since 2017. He is the author and organizer of several publications in Museology and Heritage, including the book “A history of museology” (2019) . He is currently president of the International Committee on Museology (ICOFOM) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and editor of the journal ICOFOM Study Series (ISS) and of Museum International magazine. Adélia Borges is a São Paulo-based critic, design historian and independent curator. She has published texts in seven languages and is the author or co-author of 34 books. As a curator, she has held more than 60 exhibitions in various institutions in Brazil and in Germany, the United States, France, Holland, Italy, Japan, Portugal and the United Kingdom. In 2011 she received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) for her contribution to Brazilian design. Since 2016, she has been a curatorial consultant at MASP.