PUC Campinas University Museum

The history of the PUC-Campinas University Museum begins in the 1950s, when Professor Alfonso Trujillo Ferrari started to organize ethnographic expeditions to different regions of Brazil. When he returned, he brought not only his intellectual luggage, but also objects made by the people he had known and who had fascinated him so much.

Over time, the classrooms and warehouses at the college were filled with these relics. In 1958, the then rector of the University, Monsignor Emílio José Salim, inaugurated the Department of Anthropology in the ground rooms of the Pátio dos Leões (Central Campus) to guard the nascent collection.