Focusing on the period between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the late twentieth century, this edited volume examines the histories of objects, museums, exhibitions, and collections in Portugal or outside Portugal but representing Portugal, or related to it through colonial relationships

Filipa Lowndes Vicente is researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Leonor de Oliveira is collaborating researcher at the Art History Institute of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities-Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Portugal.

Part I: Artistic and Natural History Collections in the Eighteenth Century: Between Lisbon, Brazil, China and India 1. The Empire in Transition and History Painting from Lisbon to Brazil 2. Travelling and Collecting: Natural History in Brazil During the Enlightenment 3. The Painting Collections of the Dukes of Aveiro in the Eighteenth Century, with a Note on the Acquisitions of an English Gentleman 4. Asian Material Culture in the Estate of Alexandre Metelo de Sousa Meneses, Ambassador of King John V to China and President of the Overseas Council Part II: Exhibiting Identities in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1860-1999) 5. Exhibitions and Museums in Goa: The Making of Visible Identities (1860-1952) 6. Creating a Portuguese Imperial Identity: Art Exhibitions in the Metropolis and in the African Colonies 7. National Identity, Modernity and Aspirations to Internationalisation in the 1950s: The Portuguese Fine Arts at International Exhibitions 8. Museum-Making in Portuguese Macao: The Creation of the Luís de Camões Museum from Colonial to Post-colonial Times Part III: The Displaying of Art and History in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 9. Museums and the Art Reforms of the First Portuguese Republic (1910-1926) 10. Heroes on Display: The (Re)Construction and Exhibition of the Tomb of the Legendary Hero Egas Moniz in Early Twentieth-Century Portugal 11. Anti-semite and Anti-modern Fractures in the Portugal of Salazar: The Case of Portrait Painter and Museum Director Eduardo Malta (1933-1965) 12. "Worthy of Enabling and Support." the Exhibitions of the Lisbon Buchholz Bookshop and Their Critical Reception in the Context of the Second World War