National Museum of Ancient Art

On the September 19th my new English class and I went out the school to see the exhibition "Encompassing the Globe", which was in National Museum of Anchient Art (Lisbon).
I thought the exhibition was going to be about some other travelers than Portuguese sailors, but I was wrong because that was the aim, actually. It showed us where Portuguese have been when Discovery time began and as well the perspectives of the nations that contacted with them, such as Brasilian, African, Indian, Macanese, Chinese, Japanese and Sri Lankan (ex-Ceilan island) people.
For me the highlights were in Portugal and Brazil parts, which I found out to be more interesting because of some objects story, that were made in such detailed way. By the way, the guide helped us by responding to every question made and she turned the tour less boring than the usual guides by telling us some curiosities.
Some pieces like "Painéis de São Vicente" (thanks for the correction) and the chair made of elephant Salomon bones impressed me, and the last one I could recall because of Saramago's new book, "The Elephant's Journey", which narrates the journey from Portugal to Austria by that same creature.
Besides the "material" parts, of course that the different perspectives were important and made a conection with the relations between different cultures of the World nowadays, I mean, Globalization for instance. If it wasn't the will of some brave Portuguese probably the Globalisation wouldn't exist or it would be delayed, we'll never know.