The Geyer collection donated to Imperial Museum

Abstract

This article presents the history of the formation and composition of the Geyer collection, the greater brasiliana until recently in particular hands, and tells the circumstances of its donation, in the year of 1999, to the Museu Imperial, unit of the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, in the city of Petrópolis (RIO DE JANEIRO). The inventory, the conservation and the spreading of this inestimable pile, gathered by the couple Paulo and Maria Cecília Geyer for more than half century and now transformed into common wealth, are being done by the Museu Imperial, intending the full use of these goods by the society as a whole.