Ana Cristina de Menezes Santoro is PhD student in Conservation and Restoration of Arts and Cultural Heritage at the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University, Regional Center of Porto. She has a bachelor degree in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a master's degree in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She has complementary technical degree in Conservation and Restoration of Arts and Cultural Heritage at the Ouro Preto Art Foundation. Currently, she works as a Conservator and Restorer at the Anthropological Museum of the Federal University of Goiás, where she headed the Coordination of Museology and is responsible for the Conservation and Restoration Laboratory of Paper Collections. She also develops research projects in the areas of museum documentation and conservation and restoration of ethnographic collections. He coordinated restoration works on monuments listed by the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute.