Person

Marcelo Araújo

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Marcel Mattos Araújo is a museologist and has been the director of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil since 2002. Before becoming director of the Pinacoteca he directed the Museu Lasar Segall – IPHAN/MinC, São Paulo, Brazil. He cooperates with various museum institutions in Brazil and acts as advisor for the Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin, São Paulo.

He received his Ph.D. from the Faculdade de Arcuitetura e Urbanismo at Universidade de São Paulo and gives classes in the program for Museum Studies at Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia at Universidade de São Paulo. In 1987, he was President of the Associação Paulista de Museólogos and in 1989 of the Conselho Regional de Museologia de São Paulo. He is member of ICOM Brazil.