Coleções zoológicas: curadoria, métodos e conservação.

Abstract

The Zoological Collections are composed of biological materials kept in good condition from techniques contained in a collection. The curatorship of the zoological collections is primarily the role of the curator who works with the intention of keeping the patrimony preserved with specific care. Using this knowledge as a starting point, knowing its importance and uses can generate incentives so that increasingly, the public which makes use of it, interact with the care designed to keep this material in good condition. Knowing the collection and how to preserve it, it's already a good start to increase the duration of the said. The objective of this study was to collect data from the Laboratory of Zoology of the campus of the UFCG / CES and to point out the methods of conservation used in it. This is a descriptive research with presentation of qualitative analyzes, developed at the Centro de Educação e Saúde (CES) of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) with the collection contained in three laboratories of the institution. With the results obtained it can be verified that the collections need more visibility in the campus where the research occurred, so that their applications are taken advantage of and their preservation maintained. It is concluded that further dissemination of the CES‟s collection through work developed with it and awareness of the public using it through educational practices in the referred university necessary.