Teacher
Marcelo Lages Murta

Resume

Marcelo Lages Murta is a researcher, consultant, and lecturer specializing in cultural policy, museology, cultural heritage, and international cooperation. He holds a PhD in Museum Studies (Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon), a Master’s degree in International Cooperation and Development (University of Cantabria, Spain), a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management (Brazil), and a BA in History (UFMG). He is currently an FCT Researcher, leading the project “Multilateral Cultural Policies and their Local Impacts: perspectives from Portugal towards Cultural Heritage issues within International Organizations”, which examines the interplay between global cultural governance frameworks and local heritage practices. With over 15 years of experience, Marcelo has worked with international organizations including UNESCO, UNDP, the European Commission, and OEI, as well as national and local institutions across Latin America, Europe, and the South Pacific. His work bridges academic research and applied practice, with a focus on cultural heritage governance, cultural rights, and development processes. Marcelo is an active member of ICOM, ICOMOS, ACHS, and MINOM. He was awarded a 2022–2023 fellowship at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, where he developed research on cultural governance and international policy frameworks. In 2025, he served as a jury member for the ICOM Award for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums. His current work advances research and applied projects at the intersection of cultural heritage, public policy, and sustainable development, with particular attention to the role of international organizations and their local impacts. He is also a lecturer at Universidade Lusófona, teaching Cultural Policy and Museology at postgraduate level, and contributes to international research initiatives, including Erasmus+ projects. His publications address themes such as museum activism, geopolitics of cultural heritage, and social cohesion.

Graus

• Doutoramento
  Museologia
• Master
  Máster Iberoamericano en Cooperación Internacional y Desarrollo
• Master
  Gestão Cultural
• Bachelor
  História

Publicações

Journal article

• 2025-09-21, SOMUS e SUSTAIN: Justiça Social e Sustentabilidade na Agenda Institucional do ICOM, Cadernos de Sociomuseologia
• 2025-09-21, SOMUS and SUSTAIN: Social Justice and Sustainability in ICOM’s Institutional Agenda, Cadernos de Sociomuseologia
• 2025, Geopolítica e migrações climáticas no Pacífico Sul: perspectivas regionais a partir dos casos de Kiribati e Tuvalu, Temas de Integração - AEEC - Associação de Estudos Europeus de Coimbra. Faculdade de Direito. Universidade de Coimbra.
• 2018, Entre las ideas y los hechos: análisis comparado de los alcances y límites del Plan de Acción de Buenos Aires en Brasil y Mexico, Revista Española de Cooperación y Desarrollo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• 2017-07, International Cooperation: The Ibermuseos Programme (2007-2017), Museum International
• 2016, Das "utopias museais" ao pragmatismo estruturado: Declaração de Salvador e Programa Ibermuseus , MUSAS - Revista Brasileira de Museus e Museologia

Book chapter

• 2019, Whose Memories for Which Future? Favela Museums and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil., Museum Activism, Routledge / University of Leicester
• 2018, Economia criativa no Brasil, Industrias Creativas en Iberoamerica, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
• 2017, Community voices and museums in Brazilian favelas, Things Don’t Really Exist Until You Give Them a Name: Unpacking Urban Heritage, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
• 2014, Convergencias entre la Cooperación Internacional de Brasil y de España en los países de la Comunidad de Países de Lengua Portuguesa - CPLP, Ensayos de cooperación internacional para el desarrollo, 6, COIBA - Universidad de Cantabria

Report

• 2021-06, Teaching and Learning with Living Heritage Pilot Survey on the UNESCO ASPnet Schools in the European Union - Summary of Key Findings, https://ich.unesco.org/doc/src/Teaching_and_Learning_with_Living_Heritage.pdf
• 2019-06-06, Final Report - National Cultural Policy (NCP) - Republic of Kiribati
• 2009-06, Systematization courses: Intangible heritage: policies and tools for identification, documentation and safeguard, 2008/2009; Running a museum, 2009 / Sistematização dos cursos: Patrimônio imaterial: políticas e instrumentos de identificação, documentação e salvaguarda, 2008/2009, Como gerir um museu, 2009, https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000188263

Conference paper

• 2026-05-28, A efetividade da salvaguarda de saberes e produtos tradicionais nas políticas de patrimônio imaterial e de indicações geográficas: Potencialidades e assimetrias no acordo Mercosul–União Europeia, XV Seminário Internacional de Políticas Culturais
• 2022-12-06, O desenvolvimento de políticas culturais a partir do Museu Nacional do Kiribati., V Seminário Brasileiro de Museologia - SEBRAMUS
• 2022-12-06, EcoHeritage: capacitação de comunidades para aprofundar a função social dos museus., V Seminário Brasileiro de Museologia - SEBRAMUS
• 2019-05-08, Cultura, Cidadania e Desenvolvimento: as políticas culturais brasileiras e a Política Nacional de Cultura da República do Kiribati, X Seminário Internacional de Políticas Culturais
• 2015-11-16, Prêmio Ibero­Americano de Educação e Museus: entre processos e projetos educativos., II Seminário Brasileiro de Museologia - SEBRAMUS
• 2011-07, Patrimônio imaterial e denominações de origem no processo para o registro do ofício das paneleiras de Goiabeiras/ES, XXVI Simpósio Nacional de História
• 2008, ICMS Cultural: atores e problemas., XVI Encontro Regional de História

Conference abstract

• 2022-06-01, First steps of the project "EcoHeritage: ecomuseums as a collaborative approach to recognition, management and protection of cultural and natural heritage", MUSEOEUROPE 2021 "Living in Europe" - ICOM Europe Conference 2021
• 2015, Museologia Social e Cooperação Internacional: discursos e práticas do Programa Ibermuseus entre 2008 e 2015., II Simpósio Internacional de Pesquisa em Museologia - II SInPeM.

Conference poster

• 2023-07-05, EcoHeritage: Ecomuseums as a collaborative approach to recognition, management and protection of cultural and natural heritage, Encontro Ciência 2023 - ¿Ciência e oceano para além do horizonte¿
• 2015-09-14, Museus e cooperação internacional multilateral: o alcance dos editais do Prêmio Ibero-Americano de Educação e Museus., III Seminário Internacional Ciência e Museologia: Universo Imaginário.
• 2009-09, Como gerir um museu, I Fórum Franco-Brasileiro: Museus, Museologia e Sociedade