About us
The National Centre for Folklore and Popular Culture (CNFCP), is the only government institution that develops and runs programs and projects for studies, research, documentation, diffusion and promotion of expressions of artefacts and acts of the Brazilian people. Its work achieved a museum collection of 13,000 objects, 130,000 bibliographic documents and around 70,000 audio-visual documents.
The CNFCP is installed in a historic building in Catete, a monument protected by the Institute of National Historic and Art Heritage (Iphan).
Background
After the end of the Second World War, UNESCO led the movement to adopt mechanisms to document and preserve traditions that it considered were endangered.
In Brazil, this guideline was adopted and in 1947 the National Folklore Committee was created, linked to Unesco. In 1958, the outcome of this process was the installation of the Campaign for Safeguarding Brazilian Folklore, the first permanent organ devoted to this field, linked to the then Ministry of Education and Culture. In 1976, the campaign was incorporated to Funarte as the National Institute of Folklore.
In late 2003, the institution, now under its current name (CNFCP), joined the structure of the Institute of National Historic and Art Heritage (Iphan).
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