On Brazil ´s MUSEU DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA

[Don Osborn]

Dear Francisco,

Thank you very much for your email and the contacts. I have heard of this
museum and have it on the list at
http://donosborn.org/iyl/index.php/Main/Locations , but know little about
it. 

There are perhaps three broad categories of museum relating to language. All
of them have a role and would seem to be able to share information and
resources, but their emphases are a bit different:

1) Museums about language & languages in general, such as the NML, Linguamón
- Casa de les Llengües (Barcelona), Danmarks Sprogmuseum (Aarhus), and the
World Language Centre (Reykjavik)

2) Language-specific museums - i.e., about a particular language such as
Portuguese or Afrikaans

3) Museums about specific aspects of the use of language such as alphabets,
printing, cryptology etc. 

I will pass on this information by cc to Amelia Murdoch and some of her
colleagues.

Don


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu [mailto:owner-lgpolicy-
> list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of fcgm at hotlink.com.br
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:05 AM
> To: lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu
> Subject: On Brazil´s MUSEU DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu [mailto:owner-lgpolicy-
> >> list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu] On Behalf Of Harold Schiffman
> >> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:19 PM
> >> To: lp
> >> Subject: US: Opening of National Museum of Language, Saturday 3 May
> >>
> >> Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu
> >>
> >>
> >> Via ILR-INFO...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The opening
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> When: Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 1:00 PM.
> >>
> >> Where: The National Museum of Language
> >>
> >> 7100 Baltimore Ave. -- Suite 202
> >>
> >> College Park, MD 20740
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> For more information contact: Dr. Amelia C. Murdoch,
> >> acmurdoch at languagemuseum.org
> >>
> >> www.languagemuseum.org <http://www.languagemuseum.org/>
> >>
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