Who was the first woman to become a national museum director?
©Ana Pérez-Quiroga
©Primeira Avenida
©Chiado Museum
©Chiado Museum
©Chiado Museum
©Primeira Avenida
©Primeira Avenida
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Regards from you friend, Maria José de Mendonça
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The Director
2013
performance by Susana Mendes Silva, with the collaboration of Miguel Pereira
20'

18th May, Saturday, 9.30 p.m.
Hall
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado
Event integrated in the exhibition Hetero QB and in the International Museum Day.
In "The Director", Susana Mendes Silva and Miguel Pereira celebrate with the audience the International Museum Day by evocating a very special woman: Maria José de Mendonça. The performance was part of the paralel events of the exhibition "Hetero QB" and proposed an historical insight through the absence of a gender discourse in Portuguese Museology. 

After the performance, the artist made a Wikipedia entry for the museum director (soon in an English version): 


We wish to thank
(alphabetically)

:

Anísio Franco

António Filipe Pimentel

Carlos Bártolo

Emília Tavares 

Joana Sousa Monteiro

João Silvério

Rita Sá Marques

Rui Afonso Santos

Silvana Bessone



all the staff of MNAC – Museu do Chiado

Museu dos Coches

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga