Musea Futuri

Musea Futuri is a research project born from the destruction of the collections of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro and continuing today in Europe. The project questions the form and purpose of the contemporary museum, starting from the observation that the disappearance of physical objects opens the possibility of a museum founded on their surviving images. This “empty museum” would no longer be merely a space for preservation, but a speculative territory where memory, light, and photographic traces replace lost materiality. Between documentary investigation and critical fiction, Musea Futuri offers a visual reflection on the function of the museum in the postcolonial era. It questions the relationship between archives, power, and imagination, and attempts to reinvent a museology based on the circulation and survival of images.