ABSTRACT
Organized into four parts, the chapter deals initially with the Portuguese migration to Brazil between 1850s and 1860s, when José d’ Oliveira Lopes started his saga. The chapter focuses on the circulation of people between the two sides of the Atlantic. Next, it explores the creation of the school and pedagogical museums in the 1800s, seeing them as necessary didactic support for the implementation of the method of object lessons. The attention is to the circulation of pedagogical models. The third part discusses commercial and educational relationships among Brazil, France, and Portugal. The argument shifts to the circulation of cultural objects. This requires understanding the Brazilian School Museum based on its production, distribution, and consumption, looking for evidence of the reasons for its creation, of the editorial strategies shaping the product, and of the circuit in which it was inserted, without overlooking the many ways in which it was appropriated by the social subjects. As its conclusion, this chapter reflects on how to situate the center and the periphery in the studies in which the circulation is the focus of analysis within the scope of a transnational history of education.
