Museums

Museum of Visual Arts Photo: Michael Dantas/SEC Created on June 18, 1965 (law no. 233), during the government of Arthur Reis, with the goal of developing, preserving and conserving the artistic and cultural heritage of the state, the Pinacoteca do Amazonas had Moacyr Couto de Andrade as its first director. ...

The Manaus Indian Museum is the largest and most extensive museum of indigenous history in Brazil. The Museum has in its collection about three thousand pieces produced by Amazonian tribes. Among the objects are household utensils, weapons, ornaments and musical instruments. It is maintained by the Congregation of the Sisters ...

Amazonian Museum The Amazonian Museum is a supplementary public body of the Federal University of Amazonas (Ufam), and acts in support of research, teaching and extension in areas fundamental to the knowledge of the Amazon and its cultures. It was created in 1975, implemented in 1989, and inaugurated in 1991. ...

The Paço da Liberdade is one of the most important buildings in the oldest historic site of Manaus. (Photo: Ingrid Anne/Manauscult) Paço da Liberdade The Paço da Liberdade building is located in the Historic Center of Manaus, in the old neighborhood of São Vicente. Its construction was begun in 1874 and was one of the ...

Photo: Alfredo Fernandes Photo: Alfredo Fernandes Photo: Alfredo Fernandes Photo: Alfredo Fernandes The Museum of North Man was inaugurated on March 13, 1985, in Manaus, by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation and is today located in the Centro Cultural dos Povos da Amazônia (CCPA). The objective, at the time of creation, was a ...

The Provincial Palace, known for over a hundred years as the Amazonas Military Police Barracks, as of 2009 has resumed its original name - Provincial Palace - is certainly a heritage that accompanies the evolution of Amazonian society. The building is considered a tangible heritage, tumbled ...

Seringal Vila Paraíso Museum The Seringal Vila Paraíso Museum, located at Igarapé São João, in the rural area of Manaus, was inaugurated on August 16, 2002. The space reproduces a rubber plantation at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, the time of the rubber cycle ...

Eduardo Ribeiro House Museum Inaugurated on March 18, 2010, the Eduardo Ribeiro House Museum, recovers the personal, military and administrative history of the maranhense man, considered the great transformer of the capital of Amazonas. It was acquired by private individuals after his death and by the Federal Government in 1961 and in ...

Museum of the Amazon - Muse | Botanical Garden The Museum of the Amazon (MUSA), founded in 2009, is a living, open-air museum in a segment of the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve, a primary forest in the city of Manaus. In the same area, in 2002, a Botanical Garden was created in ...