This article reflects on the languages constructed about black culture at the time it integrated the educational practices of the Édison Carneiro Folklore Museum from 1968 to 1982. Through an investigation and analysis of newspapers and the inauguration speech of the museum, our intention was to show how the institution represented in its educational practices, in view of its relationship with schools, a social imaginary about Brazilian black culture. Our study identified that in those actions, the museum actively participated in a nation project in which students learned that the African matrix culture was part of a nation born of three races where there was no ethnic-racial conflict. And so, understanding that museums participate in the political game of their time, we seek to highlight their importance as a tool for questioning history teaching.
