On Brazil ´s MUSEU DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA

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Hi,Don
Did you know about Brazil´s MUSEU DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA,based in São Paulo?
It is the largest of its kind.Housed in a former railway station,it is
a pedagogical museum, with a focus on both spoken and written 
Portuguese.You can
visit it on the google,by typing its name.A whole building devoted to
historical and current aspects of Portuguese.Nothing like anywhere,as far as I
know. Its Linguistic consultant,Dr.Ataliba Castilho, is currently a Visiting
Professor at Georgetown.His e-mail: ataliba at uol.com.br
Good to know the U.S. will open its own Museum
Francisco Gomes de MatosQuoting Don Osborn <dzo at bisharat.net>:

> FYI, I also posted something short about this at
> http://donosborn.org/blog/2008/04/30/national-museum-of-language/ . It is
> small but worthy of support. It also seems that "language museum" (however
> termed) is an emerging category of institution/learning-center that can
> provide physical places for popular education and appreciation of language
> (along the lines discussed by David Crystal as "locations to visit"), and
> also serve as foci for applied activities and outreach.
>
> Earlier in this International Year of Languages I was (admittedly a bit
> presumptuously) proposing the idea of a sort of high level meeting of
> existing language museum projects as a way of sharing ideas and approaches,
> perhaps clarifying some general themes or standards, and establishing a
> network for mutual aid. Unfortunately I ran into some roadblocks and simply
> haven't had the time to devote to this. Eventually it will happen I'm sure,
> without need for an outside would-be catalyst, but sooner would be better.
>
> Wrt the topic of this list - maybe there will be some role for language
> museums in public education about language policies and planning.
>
> Don Osborn
>
>
>
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>> list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Harold Schiffman
>> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:19 PM
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>> Subject: US: Opening of National Museum of Language, Saturday 3 May
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>> Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
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>> Via ILR-INFO...
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>> The National Museum of Language (NML), a small museum that explores
>> the transformative powers of language, will be opened to the public
>> this May after more than ten years in the making. A trail-blazer in
>> the field-there are no more than three museums in the world with a
>> similar focus--the Museum will examine the history, impact and art of
>> language.
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>> The opening exhibit "Writing Language: Passing It On" will display how
>> written language has developed over time. Attention is given to the
>> development of alphabetic and pictographic writing systems. The
>> alphabetic exhibit traces the beginnings of the Roman Alphabet from
>> Sumerian clay tablets, its evolution into the alphabet used most
>> widely worldwide today, and its relation to Arabic and Hebrew
>> alphabets. The pictographic exhibit features the Chinese and Japanese
>> scripts.
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>>
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>> The Museum will open Saturday, May 3, 2008, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM. After
>> the opening, visitors are then welcome on Tuesdays and Saturdays, 9:00
>> AM - 4:00 PM; first and third Sundays: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM.
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>>
>> The opening
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>> When: Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM.
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>> Where: The National Museum of Language
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>> 7100 Baltimore Ave. -- Suite 202
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>> College Park, MD 20740
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>> For more information contact: Dr. Amelia C. Murdoch,
>> acmurdoch at languagemuseum.org
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>> www.languagemuseum.org <http://www.languagemuseum.org/>
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