Coleções arqueológicas: percursos e recursos. Um breviário sobre as coleções do IICT

Abstract

In 2015, IICT - Instituto de Investigação CIentífica Tropical (Tropical Research Institute) (1883) was integrated in the University of Lisbon. Its scientific heritage includes several scientific collections resulting from multiple organized missions to the former Portuguese colonies, especially since 1936, when the Junta das MIssões Geográficas e de Investigações Coloniais (Board for Geographic Missions and Colonial Research) was created. Among these collections are the archaeological ones whose collecting contexts, custodial history, valuation actions, and future perspectives are reviewed, in a very synthetic way, in the following pages.