The research has a central discussion the reception study of the collaborative exhibition and selfnarrative "Resistência já! Fortalecimento e união das culturas indígenas -Kaingang, Guarani Nhandewa e Terena" at MAE-USP. Initially, information obtained with indigenous curators, and managers of their own museums, about their museum conceptions and expectations about the exhibition through videos, articles and interviews. Regarding the visiting public of the exhibition, the hypothetical model, anchored in the multimethod, will raise guidelines for data collection. With theoretical bases in museological communication, we are interested in discovering how the visitor appropriates museum messages, in the face of indigenous expectations. The concept of indigenization related with social museology will sustain the discussion, considering the indigenous participation in the expographic process. The results of the research focus on indigenous expectations, on the one hand, and on the other the understanding of indigenous protagonism from indigenous voices, the relationship between museology and indigenous peoples and, finally, the development of methodological debate about the study of reception and the exhibition, that are the main object of this research.