Belém: the museum wall becomes a public gallery

A museum wall normally separates the collection from the street. In Belém, a 2025 project used that surface to create another point of contact, translating research and memory into murals visible outside the galleries.

WAYFARER’s October account described the Museu de Arte Urbana de Belém initiative at Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, ahead of COP30. Nineteen murals were recorded across the zoo-botanical park and the research campus.

Looking inside before painting outside

The participating artists first spent time with the museum’s collections, including Marajoara ceramics, Tapajó objects and Indigenous material. That stage gave the work a relationship with the institution beyond the availability of a large blank wall.

William Baglione curated the selection. Artists from different parts of Brazil brought direct representations of flora and fauna alongside more interpretive approaches to Amazonian memory, Afro-Amazonian heritage and Indigenous knowledge.

The original account listed contributors including Éder Oliveira, Alex Senna, Cely Feliz, Wira Tini and the duo Gabz and Tsssrex. Their different visual languages prevented the project from becoming a single repeated illustration.

The exhibition period described in the source is historical, not current access information. Its continuing interest is the process: the public-facing work began with an encounter with the collection, then returned that material to the city in another form.

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Adapted from the WAYFARER Brazil archive, first published 2025-10-06. English adaptation: 6 October 2026. This is an archival account, not a report of a new visit. Exhibitions, collections and menu details are described in their original context, not as current availability.