Usually, as an outcome of time, natural effects and vandalism, archaeological artefacts are found frequently damaged. The original colours turned pale and sometimes they are so fragile that can not be submitted to long travels and leaving the place where they were created and where they remained for millennia. Commonly, dramatic temperature changes and other variants can damage fragile pieces, reducing them to powder. Generally, the options of curators tends to turn to pieces of bronze, stone and other resistant materials. Also, all the work related with bureaucracies and the high cost involving the transport and security of pieces contribute to do the task of organising Exhibitions, something extremely hard, when not completely impossible. For this reason, big Egyptological exhibitions usually have a schedule restricted to places in Britain, France, USA and Germany.

It was thinking about all these variants that the Instituto de Egiptologia Didactic Collection was created. In short, the main purpose of this Collection is the same of all the other Egyptological Collections around the world - to show the cultural development of ancient Egyptian civilisation, but, in this case we have the option of using a new and original approach. As each of its Exhibitions has a special title and a determined purpose, pieces are arranged in order to “tell” a determined “story”. Not rarely some pieces or models are produced exclusively to fulfil a special place in an important screenplay of a project.

Thus, its main value is didactic and scientific and the authors can define the following objects: 1) show the general development of the Egyptian civilisation, considering its historical, geographical and chronological terms; 2) show the many kinds of objects found in Egypt, in a contextual ambient, trying to explain how it worked at the time when they were produced and used; 3) show Egyptian material culture in a restored view, since, most part of them are too rooted as a consequence of time and vandalism; 4) show the different stages of construction of important monuments and forms in Architecture (using models); 5) show the development of different technical procedures of making objects, sometimes, using the procedures of Experimental Archaeology (trying to reproduce materials and movements as the ancient men did in Antiquity).

The cultural meaning of this Collection is, for this very reason, at least, considerable: it links and focuses the interest of different people that look for fresh and scientific information; it unites the people through the sensibility of Art, Archaeology and History; it opens a field of interest, research and aesthetic pleasure; lastly, it offers, through contact with an uncommon and exotic art, a new option to Brazilian mind: to see a successful example of a continued and patented Human Experience. Above all, a true testimony of the longest of this kind since the dawn of civilisation.