Manaus Agile tourism and culture of AmazonasWhat is a museum?
According to Law No. 11,904, of January 14, 2009, which instituted the Museum Statute, "Museums are considered, for the purposes of this Law, the non-profit institutions that preserve, investigate, communicate, interpret and exhibit, for the purposes of preservation, study, research, education, contemplation and tourism, sets and collections of historical, artistic, scientific, technical or any other cultural value, open to the public, at the service of society and its development."
The museum is the place where sensations, ideas, and ready images radiated by objects and references gathered there illuminate values essential to human beings. A fascinating space where one discovers and learns, in which knowledge is broadened and the awareness of identity, solidarity, and sharing is deepened.
Through museums, social life recovers the human dimension that vanishes in the rush of the hour. Cities find the mirror that reveals the face erased in the whirlwind of daily life. And each person welcomed by a museum ends up knowing more about himself.
May 18th is celebrated as the International Museum Day. According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Museums (Ibram), museum visitation has grown in recent years. Between 2014 and 2015, the public grew by 675,140 visitors. During last year's Museum Week, visitation grew by 79%.
Why not take the opportunity to get to know a little more about the museums that exist in the city of Manaus? Besides being open all year round, most of them have free admission and show more of the region's evolution.
Check out a list with 12 suggestions for museums in Manaus:
1. Eduardo Ribeiro House Museum
Opened on March 18, 2010, the Eduardo Ribeiro House MuseumIt recovers the personal, military and administrative history of the maranhense, 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 2002 it was loaned to the State, through the State Secretariat of Culture, for the specific purpose of recovering the memory of the city and the history of medicine. It is located in an area of interest for preservation, in the Historic Center of Manaus.
It has a permanent exhibition of period residential furniture, objects for personal use, and art that seek to recreate the way of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro lived. The rooms and rooms are named after facts and characters considered relevant in the life of the former governor and its former owners.
In the same house considering the later use of the property, is installed the headquarters of the Academia Amazonense de Medicina, founded in 1980, in which information about the history of medicine in Amazonas can be found, made available in digital language.
Address: Rua José Clemente, 322 - Historical Center
Telephone: (92) 3234-8755
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free admission.
2. Paço da Liberdade - City Museum
The building of the Paço da Liberdade is located in the Historic Center of Manaus, in the old neighborhood of São Vicente. Its construction began in 1874 and was one of the first monuments to present neoclassical architectural features having one of the most beautiful facades of the city. Also known as Paço Municipal, in 1879, the building housed the Provincial Government and, afterwards, with the Proclamation of the Republic, it became the seat of the Republican Government's administration.
The monument has a single floor, subdivided into three sections. The central part is composed of a portico with two columns and two pilasters in Tuscan style, where you can see the coat of arms of the municipality of Manaus.
Located in front of Dom Pedro II Square, the Paço da Liberdade is one of the most important buildings of the oldest historical site of Manaus, a landmark of the wealth and pomp that reigned during the rubber golden age.
In December 2016, Manauscult concluded the public call for the implementation of the City Museum with resources raised from the private sector through the Rounet Law. The Museum will be interactive and will use technological resources to tell the story of the formation of the city of Manaus and its people.
Address: Gabriel Salgado Street, s/n (D. Pedro II Square) - Historical Center
Telephone: (92) 3622-4991
Hours: Monday to Friday from 09h to 16h30 / Saturday from 9h to 12h30. Free entry.
3. Seringal Vila Paraíso Museum
Built as the setting for the 2002 movie The Jungle, it reproduces Vila Humaitá, on the Madeira River, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, a period when rubber was the main economic activity in the region. On the visit to the Museu do Seringalyou will get to know all the stages of rubber production from the rubber trees, and details about the workers' daily life.
The collection is formed by period settings - rubber cycle - with furniture and utensils that testify the wealth of the rubber plantations, when rubber was at the peak of its economic valuation.
Address: Igarapé São João - tributary of the Igarapé do Tarumã Mirim, left bank of the Rio Negro (Rural Area). Access only by river (boat: 20 to 30 minutes from David's Marina, located at the end of the Ponta Negra Road. Floating Coop. Acamdaf. Marina do Davi - Ponta Negra.
Telephone: (92) 99275-4646 / 99603-7086
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Sunday to Sunday from 08h to 16h. Admission R$5.
4. Museum of Northern Man
O North Man Museum was inaugurated on March 13, 1985, in Manaus, by the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation and is now at the Centro Cultural dos Povos da Amazônia (CCPA). The goal, at the time of its creation, was to create a museum that could reflect the culture of the man from the north, gathering a significant collection that represented and reflected the characteristics and peculiarities of life in Brazil's northern region, like the one already existing in Recife, the Museu do Homem do Nordeste, with ideals of an anthropological and didactic museum inspired in the works of the sociologist and anthropologist Gilberto Freyre.
Address: Av. Silves, 2.222 (Praça Francisco Pereira da Silva) - Distrito Industrial I - Manaus, Am, Brazil - CEP:69.073-270 (Former Suframa Ball and current Cultural Center of the Peoples of the Amazon).
Phone: (92) 2125-5323
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 2 pm. Free entry.
5. Museum of Amazonia - Muse | Botanical Garden
O 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 situ (on site) was created which still grows and surprises.
Its trails cut through the dense fabric of trees, palms, and vines are illuminated by lights and shadows that reveal the dazzling diversity of shades of green and hide insects, birds, and pollinators.
The Musa Botanical Garden is equipped with towers for viewing the forest at different heights, exhibition tents, and pavilions in which themes dear to indigenous cultures, past and present, are revealed and celebrated. In prepared experimental laboratories we show the curious the magnified micro world.
Address: Av. Margarita, s/n - Cidade de Deus
Phone: (92) 3582-3188 / 99280-4205
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Daily (except Wednesdays)from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
6. Museum of Image and Sound of Amazonas (MISAM)
O Museum of Sound and Image of Amazonas (MISAM)MISAM is a public, non-profitable cultural institution, with free access, whose mission is to keep, conserve, and preserve audiovisual collections focused on regional and general issues, with the aim of disseminating, entertaining, and educating through cultural actions.
Address: Av. Sete de Setembro, s/n (Heliodoro Balbi Square) – Historical Center
Phone: (92) 3631-6047
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free entry.
7. Numismatic Museum of Amazonas Bernardo Ramos
O Numismatic Museum of Amazonas has its origin in the collection of coins, medals, banknotes and historical documents, organized by the Amazonian trader Bernardo Ramos. A scholar and fascinated by Numismatics, he traveled through several countries, acquiring pieces for his collection.
Address: Av. Sete de Setembro, s/n (Heliodoro Balbi Square) – Historical Center
Phone: (92) 3631-6047
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free entry.
8. Tiradentes Museum
Organized and inaugurated in 1984, by initiative of the then General Commander of the Military Police, Colonel Élcio Motta, under the technical guidance of the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, coordinated in Amazonas by Dr. Robério Braga. Its first headquarters was a hall on the first floor of the General Command of the Military Police at Heliodoro Balbi Square. In 2009, the museum was reinstalled in its former location, now called - Palacete Provinciale. Provincial Palace.
Its collection consists of dozens of objects, such as: antique weapons, Fire Department equipment, uniforms, badges and decorations, documents, photographs, and others.
Address: Av. Sete de Setembro, s/n (Heliodoro Balbi Square) – Historical Center
Phone: (92) 3631-6047
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free entry.
9. Archeology Museum
O Museum of Archeology was inaugurated in 2009. Of an eminently educational nature, it presents evidence of the material culture of immemorial human groups that lived here. Coming from Archeological Sites of the State of Amazonas, whose main objective is to show the visiting public a little of the pre-colonial knowledge from the anthropological and artistic perspective, among others, of the people who lived here and bequeathed the most diverse forms of cultural expression. Complemented by banners with texts and photos explaining the "archaeological work" in the field. The visitor comes across the techniques adopted in an excavation, and can observe how these cultural evidences of these extinct peoples are found by Archaeologists, and the equipment used by them in the field.
Address: Av. Sete de Setembro, s/n (Heliodoro Balbi Square) – Historical Center
Telephone: (92) 3631-6047
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free entry.
10. State of Amazonas Pinoteca
A Pinacoteca brings together a collection of visual arts and iconography. The works were restored by the SEC's Atelier for Restoration of Works of Art. In 2009, it was installed in the Provincial Palace. Its collection offers a comprehensive overview of the Brazilian artistic production of the twentieth century, illustrated above all with works by major artists from Amazonia.
Address: Av. Sete de Setembro, s/n (Heliodoro Balbi Square) – Historical Center
Telephone: (92) 3631-6047
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9am to 2pm. Free entry.
11. Amazonian Museum - Ufam
O Amazonian Museum is a supplementary public organ of the Federal University of Amazonas (Ufam), and supports 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. It has documentary, ethnographic, and archaeological holdings.
Address: Rua Ramos Ferreira, 1036 - Centro
Phone: (92) 3305-5200 / 3305-5214
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Monday to Friday from 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm.
12. Amazon Network Museum
Founded on April 18th 2002, the Museum of the Amazon Network preserves the history of the Amazon Network (inaugurated in 1972) and of its founders: Phelippe Daou, Miltom Cordeiro and Joaquim Margarido. At the site, the first equipment imported to the old Radio TV of Amazonas is exposed. It has a collection of equipment, vintage clothing and books on communication.
Address: Praça Francisco Pereira da Silva, 149 - Crespo
Phone: (92) 3216-3084 / 3216-3080
E-mail: [email protected]
Hours: Monday through Friday from 8am to 6pm
