This dissertation aims to analyze the travel narrative in Images of Brazil, a book by Carl von Koseritz, a German citizen who acquired Brazilian nationality, starting from his visits to the civilizing institutions located in the Brazilian Imperial Court in the year 1883. The work sets an analogy between the traveler as a collector and between his book as an exhibition in a way that, when selecting and collecting the images of the Empire in the city of Rio de Janeiro, von Koseritz would form a fragmented collection of impressions of Brazil that would lately be shared and exposed to his reading public through the organization of these journal entries in a narrative similar to that of an exhibition. The dissertation focuses mainly on the journal entries regarding the visits to museums, specifically to the Imperial and National Museum and to the Pedagogical Exhibition, which will allow us to investigate how the voyage and the writing of von Koseritz create an identity for the author and his readers by means of these exemplary institutions that synthesize and radiate to the rest of the country the political project of construction of the Imperial State based on the ideals of civilization, progress, and order.