Ladislau netto no museu nacional: entre memórias (1870-1894)

Abstract: This article is about a review of the research project in progress, on the occasion of the Prerogative Qualification Examination of the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Federal University of Alagoas (PPGCI / UFAL), in August 2020. The article brings a clipping of the project presenting, from the management of Ladislau Netto from Alagoas (1870-1894) at the National Museum. Therefore, this study seeks to dialogue with Information Science, Cultural History and Museology, in order to place the botanist Ladislau Netto, at the center of his contributions to the institutional organization, as a result of administrative reforms arising from the regulations of 1876, 1888 and 1892. Culminating in the creation of the scientific magazine, Archives, in the implementation of public teaching contests and courses, within the scope of the National Museum, as well as in the sponsorship of scientific expeditions in Brazil, with repercussions in the Brazilian Anthropological Exhibition of 1882 and in the Universal and International Exhibition from Paris in 1889. Therefore, this research treats the National Museum as an institution focused on the production of information and knowledge, by establishing innovative processes, during the last quarter of the Second Brazilian Empire. What it configured in subsidies to the country´s scientific-technological, political, social and cultural development. Finally, it seeks to establish a connection between the National Museum and the State of Alagoas, as the place of origin of Ladislau Netto, both bearers of information about this trajectory.   Keywords: National Museum. Institutional Memory. Ladislau Netto. Mediation.