This paper forwards certain arguments related to the curatorial practices developed around the fabrics that are now part of the collections maintained by the University of São Paulo. The activities of collecting, documenting, conserving, displaying and transfering collections were discussed on the basis of what would have been the determining guidelines/values associated with the curatorial work of museums in the last century.
Conservation of textiles; Museums; Collections; Curatorship; Paulista Museum; Museum of Archeology and Ethnology
