Exposição - Plantando História

Credits

Ministério do Meio Ambiente Credits
MARINA SILVA | Ministra

Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
LISZT VIEIRA | Presidente

PESQUISA
Coordenadoria de Coleções Vivas
BRUNO REZENDE SILVA
CLAUDIO NICOLETTI DE FRAGA
THAIS DOS REIS MOREIRA HIDALGO
YARA LUCIA OLIVEIRA DE BRITTO

Laboratório de Museologia
LUISA MARIA GOMES DE MATTOS ROCHA

Biblioteca Barbosa Rodrigues
MARIA DA PENHA FERNANDES FERREIRA
ROSANA SIMÕES MEDEIROS

At the eve of its 200th birthday, the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden starts a project designed to rescue its memory. Nobody could tell this story better than its own actors: the plant species who witnessed the profound transformations that have changed both the Garden and the city during the last two centuries.
Those species represent the living archive of the institution and are organized in its arboretum. The Botanical Garden sought in the historical records of this scientific collection the pieces to reconstitute the most important events of its existence, which are shown in the “Planting History” exhibition.
The Botanical Garden’ s Arboretum assembles over 4 thousand plant species from America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. This vegetable richness has been translated into patches and aisles, which are organized in a way as to keep the plants grouped by ecosystem or kinship.
The collection has increased throughout time. In the beginning, the plants were brought due its economic value; later, in the creation of the archive, which received contributions from several botanical
expeditions, scientific interest prevailed.
Today the Arboretum has another important role: to protect those Brazilian species that are in danger of being extinct. In the Botanical Garden, they are cultivated and prepared for their reintroduction into the wild – so that its memory will not be limited to the Arboretum records.