Established in 1893 in the city of São Paulo, the Paulista Museum was the first public museum in the state of São Paulo, and Brazil's fourth museum. It was created as a governmental initiative amidst the growing participation of São Paulo in the international trade market through coffee exports. This article analyses the establishment of the Paulista Museum as an important agent in national and international networks of hunters, collectors, and merchants of natural history specimens in the first decades of its existence.

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培育收藏和物品贸易：保利斯塔博物馆的形成，1850 年代至 1910 年代

保利斯塔博物馆于 1893 年在圣保罗市成立，是圣保罗州的第一家公共博物馆，也是巴西的第四家博物馆。它是在圣保罗通过咖啡出口越来越多地参与国际贸易市场的过程中作为政府倡议而创建的。本文分析了保利斯塔博物馆在其存在的最初几十年中作为自然历史标本的猎人、收藏家和商人网络的重要代理的建立。