Talk:Museu Nacional de Belas Artes

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Is someone being paid to write this article for tourists? Well, anyway, UFRJ and ENBA didn't merged before the 60's; the history of ENBA/EBA-UFRJ is being downplayed- they were basically expelled from there- and the collection was poorly divided between UFRJ (now in D. João VI museum) and MNBA. Also, if there is a Caracci's drawing in the MNBA collection, it is very well hidden, I never saw this thing in any of the 100 visits I paid to MNBA. If you are a tourist hoping to see proper art, not a poorly administrated collection held by tired public workers, go to São Paulo. 201.29.233.60 (talk) 21:18, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

No, I don't think anyone is being paid to write this article, much less for tourists. Yes, UFRJ and ENBA DID merge before the 60's [1], in 1937, to be more specific. The article already states that the collection was divided between UFRJ and the MNBA and that the university's share is now in the D. João VI museum. Did you even read the article? And, yes, there is a Carracci drawing in MNBA collection [2], it is probably the most well known drawing of the museum and it's published in almost every catalogue of MNBA. I don't doubt though that you have never seen it, even going there for hundreds of times. It's a museum with 20,000 pieces, less than 10% of it is permanently exhibited - especially drawings, for being more fragile. You can spend your life going there and you will never see most part of the collection. And, no, there's not one single museum in São Paulo which has a collection of Brazilian art that can be considered even comparable to MNBA. Public museums are poorly administrated everywhere in Brazil, if tourists go to the Pinacoteca do Estado they will also have to deal with tired public workers. Private museums are better administrated, both in Rio and São Paulo. Dornicke (talk) 11:11, 10 June 2012 (UTC)