Gilda Carla Angélica Jorge Neves

Biography

Gilda is currently the Head of the Central Archive Department at the National Museum of Art, Maputo, in Mozambique. Within this role, Gilda is responsible for the management of the digital archive of the artistic and cultural collection of the National Museum of Art, and is responsible for the planning of museum activities. Working on the database system consists of tasks such as processing data and images of works of art – with the objective to preserve museum information in virtual format, and for public consultation.

This work is a challenge which aims to connect the museum with the community, especially students, and the wider world in general.

Previously, Gilda was the Officer in the Department of Digitisation and Research at the National Museum of Art, Mozambique.

In 2016, Gilda participated in an exhibition at the National Museum of Art showcasing the nationwide work of Mozambican artists. The large-scale national exhibition was put together in partnership with the Regional Museum of Inhambane, the Ethnology Museum of Nampula, and the Island Museum of Mozambique and is part of a wider collaboration on a series of projects including collections management, research and restoration.

At the British Museum
During her time on the International Training Programme in 2009, Gilda was based in the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and her partner placement was spent at Lincoln Museum.

An element of the programme was a morning of presentations, in which groups of participants presented a 10-minute illustrated talk, prompted by the task to consider a new display of the fellows’ cultures at the British Museum.  Gilda’s exhibition proposal, with colleague Antonio Ntimbanga, was entitled The Makonde Mask.

Legacy Projects
In March 2010 Gilda attended the Cairo Conference Towards a global network where she presented a paper on what she had gained, both professionally and personally, from attending the ITP and her career development since the programme.

In November 2015 Gilda attended the ITP Mumbai Workshop Creating Museums of World Stories. The workshop was held at CSMVS Mumbai, India and was attended by many ITP fellows from different years and countries, UK partners and British Museum colleagues.