Dictionary: Who's Who in Portuguese Museology – revised and expanded edition

The Dictionary Who's Who in Portuguese Museology is an unprecedented editorial project integrated into the Research Group Museum Studies (MuSt), which has the support of the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage. Its fundamental objective was to provide a comprehensive vision, precise knowledge and an updated appreciation of the personalities associated with Portuguese Museology, who carried out their activity between the 1960th century and the XNUMXs, and working in different scientific typologies (Art, Science, Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Ethnology). It also aims to contribute to a greater understanding of the History of Museums and Museology. Framed in the IHA typology seed-projects (micro-projects), one of IHA's strategic structural lines, focuses on the advantages of publishing in open access online format. The edition that is now published, revised and expanded, has 96 new biographical entries, with the selection of authors arbitrated by a Scientific Committee created for this purpose, proving, once again, the relevance of this approach centered on the biographical genre, at the same time highlight the role played by a group of regional and local individuals, some of them unknown or devalued and areas that, in general, remain insufficiently studied, making this Dictionary a work of national and international reference in this area of ​​studies.