The Amazon Botanical Museum — Museu Botânico do Amazonas — opened in 1883 and closed in 1890. Despite its brief life, the Museum was the first scientific institution in the Amazon Province of Brazil. Directed by the Brazilian botanist Joao Barbosa Rodrigues, the Museum aimed to be a modern institution similar to natural history museums in Europe and the United States. In addition to taxonomic studies of botanical and ethnographic collections collected in the Amazon region, the Museum also intended to develop studies in applied botany in medicine and industry. This article explores some aspects of the history of the Botanical Museum and examines the importance of Barbosa Rodrigues’ individual agency in the Museum's organization and studies of the Brazilian Amazon. It also demonstrates that the Museum was fundamental to improving Barbosa Rodrigues’ career as a botanist and ethnographer in the context of emerging Brazilian scientific communities of the period.

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亚马逊河中心的博物馆：一个人的实验室

亚马逊植物博物馆 - Museu Botânico do Amazonas - 于 1883 年开放，1890 年关闭。尽管其生命短暂，但该博物馆是巴西亚马逊省的第一家科学机构。该博物馆由巴西植物学家若昂·巴博萨·罗德里格斯 (Joao Barbosa Rodrigues) 执导，旨在成为一个类似于欧洲和美国自然历史博物馆的现代机构。除了对亚马逊地区收集的植物学和民族志收藏品进行分类研究外，博物馆还打算开展医学和工业应用植物学研究。本文探讨了植物博物馆历史的某些方面，并考察了 Barbosa Rodrigues 的个人机构在博物馆组织和巴西亚马逊研究中的重要性。