List of museums in Pernambuco - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Below is a list of museum

Museum

A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...

s in Pernambuco

Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Recife
Recife
Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

museums

The Museum of Pernambuco State (Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
Museu do Estado de Pernambuco
The Museu do Estado de Pernambuco is housed in a 19th century mansion on the Av. Rui Barbosa in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state, Brazil...

or MEPE)
Historical and antropological museum housed in a 19th century mansion (Lord Beberibe) in Recife, Capital of Pernambuco state, the "Museu do Estado de Pernambuco (MEPE)" dates back to 1929. From Masters who portrayed the Colonial period, as well as the Dutch invasion (1630) to 20th and 21st century, the museum comprises over 12 thousand art pieces and include panels about the battles of Monte Guararapes and Tabocas. Periodically the museum hosts the "Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Pernambuco

Pernambuco

" (Contemporary Art Exhibition) when emerging artists are selected to represent the new run of local professionals who will help to maintain and shape the new profile of the local art scenery.

960, Rui Barbosa Avenue, Graças

Tuesday through Friday - 9am/5pm; Saturday and Sunday - 2pm/5pm

Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue
Kahal Zur Israel

Kahal Zur Israel Synagogue

Kahal Zur Israel , located in Recife, Brazil, was the first Jewish congregation in the New World. It was established by immigrants from the Netherlands and joined by New Christians who were already living in the colony. There is now a museum on this site of the oldest synagogue site in the...

The historic Recife synagogue

Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer. This use of the Greek term synagogue originates in the Septuagint where it sometimes translates the Hebrew word for assembly, kahal...

in the Recife Antigo, --Old Recife—is the oldest one in the Americas, dating back to the 17th Century. Reopened recently, Kahal is part of the Pernambuco historic patrimony. It was founded by Jews who were once expelled from Portugal and settled in the Netherlands. Some of those Jews immigrated to "New Holland" when the Dutch invaded the Northeastern portion of Brazilian lands occupied by the Portuguese. When the Portuguese, helped by Portuguese-Brazilians, reconquered the land, Recife Portuguese-Brazilian Jews moved further north with the Dutch, whose trips Jews patronized, where "New Amsterdam" was founded on Manhattan island. Thus, the first New York City synagogue was created by the founders of the first synagogue in the New World, in lower Manhattan. It later moved to the Upper West Side, where it is still called "The Portuguese and Spanish Synagogue."

Bom Jesus street, Recife Antigo

Francisco Brennand Ceramic Workshop (Atêlier de Cerâmica)

Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand, or Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand, is a Brazilian sculptor. He works in several different media, and is best known for his work in ceramic sculpture.-Brennand's works:...

, one of the most important names in contemporary sculptures in Brazil, displays around 2000 pieces of his ceramic works in enormous open sheds, between monuments, gardens and in the midst of an Atlantic forest reserve in Varzea neighborhood in Recife

Recife

Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

.Many of his works elaborate on abstract beings, that are sensuality symbols. Several anatomic parts are in his studies, mainly from the female body. He also uses ceramic to create floor and wall tiles as well as brick

Brick

A brick is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using various kinds of mortar. It has been regarded as one of the longest lasting and strongest building materials used throughout history.-History:...

s for construction. His studio is set in an old brick factory that belonged to the sculptor's English family.Some of his work is an original and creative miscellaneous between the European-Amerindian-African-Egyptian

Art of Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD. Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylized and symbolic...

cultures.

Engenho S. Joǎo, Varzea

Monday through Friday - 8am/5pm

Museum of the Man of the Northeastern (Museu do Homem do Nordeste)
The broad collection describes Pernambuco's culture starting from three main themes: the sugar-cane production cycle, the northeastern man's life style and the folkloric and religious manifestations. Explore the culture heritage of Indian, Portuguese and African in the formation of the Northeast

Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region of Brazil is composed of the following states: Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia, and it represents 18.26% of the Brazilian territory....

people. Examples since Mocambos, (poor clay houses) until the big Lord house (casa grande) and the Senzala (large slaves dormitory) are illustrated in this museum. Also, objects of worship, popular cloth dolls and ceramic from regional artists such as Vitalino, Zé Caboclo, Zé Rodrigues and anonymous people as well. All this makes up the body of the richest museum of cultural antropology in Brazil

Brazil

2187, 17 Agosto Avenue, Casa Forte

Tuesday through Friday - 8.30am/5pm; Saturday and Sunday - 1pm/5pm

Gilberto Freyre Foundation
This space keeps alive the memory of the Master of Apipucos, the writer and sociologist Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto Freyre

Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...

(1900/87), immortalized between other major works in Casa Grande e Senzala. In the house museum , a nineteenth century mansion, visitors can check the ecological site (living museum with pitangueiras

Surinam Cherry

The Surinam Cherry, Brazilian Cherry, or Cayenne Cherry is a plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to tropical America. Known as Pitanga throughout Brazil or Ñangapirí in surrounding countries, it is a large shrub or small tree with a conical form, growing slowly to 8 meters in height...

trails and pau-Brazil trails). In addition to a rich library, with books collections, pictures, paintings, sculptures, crafts and personal objects that belonged to the sociologist.

320 Dois Irmaos street, Apipucos

Monday through Friday 9am/5pm

Recife City Museum
Set up in a room in Cinco Pontas Fort, it houses pictures, reproductions of old paintings (painted by Franz Post) and objects that describe Recife since the period of Dutch rule, such as over than one thousand antique photos, tableware, Portuguese and French tiles, among other pieces.

Cinco Pontas Fort, S. José

Tuesday through Friday - 9am/6pm; Saturday and Sunday - 1pm/5pm

Abolition Museum (Museu da Abolição)
Is installed in a typical construction designated Engenho (Large owner of slaves house) called Great Magdalene House. It was inaugurated in 1983 and has on display in his memorial hall, several objects relating to the slavature in the eighteenth and nineteen centuries.It has mini-auditorium and amphitheater where are developed educational and cultural programs. It's an African-Brazilian cultural reference.

150, Benfica street, Madalena

Monday through Friday - 8am/12am and 1pm/5pm

Modern Art Museum (MAMAM)
This museum is always getting new exhibitions of Brazilian and international artists as Rodin and Baskiat.

265, Aurora street, Boa Vista

Tuesday through Sunday - 12am/6pm

Ricardo Brennand Institute
Ricardo Brennand Institute
The Ricardo Brennand Institute is a cultural institution located in the city of Recife, Brazil. It is a not-for-profit private organization, inaugurated in 2002 by the Brazilian collector and businessman Ricardo Brennand...

Set up in a building that reproduces a castle in medieval style, houses a museum, art gallery and library. Was designed by the collector Ricardo Brennand. The Institute

Institute

An institute is a permanent organizational body created for a certain purpose. Often it is a research organization created to do research on specific topics...

has collection of pieces (paintings, objects, daggers, armors, etc.) from different backgrounds covering since the Medieval Europe (XVI century), the Dutch domination period in Recife (XVII century) until the Brazil of the XIX century.

Varzea - Recife
Recife
Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

Image and Sound Museum (MISPE) (Museu da Imagem e do Som)
This space is dedicated to research. It has a large collection of pieces with over than four thousands between photos, posters, discs, tapes, videos and paintings. Also, organizes constantly exhibitions such as the record of the passage of the Zepellin and the cycle of super 8 in Pernambuco. The museum is under responsibility of the journalist and movie critic Celso Marconi.

379, Aurora street, Boa Vista

Monday through Friday - 8am/2pm

Natural Sciences Museum (Museu de Ciências Naturais)
Large collection of animals, through mammals, reptiles and insects. Also, for the curious, has a botanical garden
Botanical garden
A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

and an Atlantic forest reserve with 387 ha.

Park and Zoo Dois Irmãos
Zoo Botanical Park Dois Irmaos
The Zoo Botanical Park Dois Irmãos, is located in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco - Brazil. The park has an area of 387.4 ha, 14 of which is dedicated for the Zoo Botanical and a Natural Science Museum, and the remaining area for an Atlantic Forest reserve...

, Recife
Recife
Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

Tuesday through Sunday - 8am/5pm

Popular Art Museum (MAP - Museu de Arte Popular)
Collection with many pieces of objects (usually clay and ceramics) from artists of the entire northeast of Brazil (including Mestre Vitalino, Louco, Maria Amélia, Nhô Caboclo, Judite, Ana das Carrancas, Zé Caboclo and Benedito). The museum works mainly with Folk art, Art Brut and Intuitive/Outsider art of Brazil from the 60's to today.

S. Pedro square, S. José.

Monday through Friday - 8am/5pm

Train Museum (Museu do Trem)
The museum has photos and collection of parts and tools that were used in the past century, for the construction of the Northeast Railroad.

Visconde de Maua square, central station, S. José

Monday through Friday - 9am/12am and 2pm/5pm; Saturday through Sunday - 2pm/5pm

Murillo la Greca Museum
It has a collection of more than a thousand drawings, two hundreds paintings and many objects; which shows the rejection conscious of the painter Murillo la Greca. He has studied in Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

with the Fine Arts Professor Emilio Notte.

366, Leonardo Cavalcante street, Parnamirim

Monday through Friday - 8am/5pm

Malakoff Tower Cultural Center (Centro cultural Torre Malakoff

Malakoff Tower

Malakoff Tower is a tower located in Recife Antigo, Recife. This monument was built between 1835 and 1855 to be used as an observatory and as the main entrance and gateway for Arsenal da Marinha square...

)

Cultural area with proposal involving science, art and technology. Works with exhibitions of photos, comics, among others and it is used for popular manifestations as well.The tower was renovated in 1999 keeping the old features of the Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

n style monument, which was built between 1835 and 1855. Its was a monument constructed to be used as an observatory

Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed...

. Has been registered as a Historical Patrimony and was named after a similar monument on Crimean peninsula, used as a defense center for Sebastopol on the Crimean war.

Arsenal da Marinha square, Recife Antigo
Recife Antigo
Recife Antigo is the historical section of central Recife. It is located on the Island of Recife, near the Recife harbor. This historic area has been recently recovered and now holds several clubs, bars and a high-tech center called Porto Digital.-History:Recife Antigo consists of the initial...

Tuesday through Sunday - 3pm/8pm

Military Museum of Brum Fort (Museu Militar do Forte de Brum)
Created in 1985, the museum houses Portuguese and English Cannon

Cannon

A cannon is any piece of artillery that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellents to launch a projectile. Cannon vary in caliber, range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire, and firepower; different forms of cannon combine and balance these attributes in varying degrees,...

s, weapons, pictures, objects that has marked the action of the Brazilian Air Force in the second World War. The Forte de São João Batista do Brum is a military fort built in the seventeen century.

Comunidade Luso-Brasileira square, Recife

Tuesday through Friday - 9am/4.30pm; Saturday through Sunday - 1.3pm/5pm

Currencies Museum (Museu de Valores)
Located in the Central Bank of Brazil office in Recife

Recife

, exhibits notes/bills and coins issued in the country since the creation of the bank. The museum in partnership with the Federal University of Pernambuco

Federal University of Pernambuco

The Federal University of Pernambuco is a public university located in Recife, Brazil, and established in 1946. UFPE has 70 undergraduate courses and 175 postgraduate courses. As of 2007, UFPE had near 35,000 students and about 2,000 professors. The university has three campuses: Recife, Vitória...

in addition to more than seven thousands coins has acquired a collection with two hundred international currencies, set in a room designated Currencies of the World.

1259, Aurora street, Santo Amaro

Monday through Friday - 9am/4pm

Carnival House (Casa do Carnaval)
Works as a source of research and information about the Carnival

Carnival

Carnaval is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent; the main events are usually during February. Carnaval typically involves a public celebration or parade combining some elements of a circus, mask and public street party...

in Recife. The club has a vast collection of discs and materials about the many carnivals associations of the city.

52, S. Pedro square, S. José

Monday through Friday - 9am/7pm

Francisco Brennand Sculptures Park (Parque de Esculturas)

Beside his large workshop in Varzea, Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand, or Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand, is a Brazilian sculptor. He works in several different media, and is best known for his work in ceramic sculpture.-Brennand's works:...

has also a open exhibition space in Marco Zero square, located in Recife Antigo

Recife Antigo

Recife Antigo is the historical section of central Recife. It is located on the Island of Recife, near the Recife harbor. This historic area has been recently recovered and now holds several clubs, bars and a high-tech center called Porto Digital.-History:Recife Antigo consists of the initial...

. He created this park in celebration of the Brazilian 500 years of foundation.

Marco Zero, Recife Antigo

House of Culture (Casa da Cultura)
In this space operated before one house of detention, now houses the Museum of the Frevo
Frevo
Frevo is a wide range of musical styles originating from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, all of which are traditionally associated with Brazilian Carnival. The word frevo is said to come from frever, a misspeaking of the Portuguese word ferver . It is said that the sound of the frevo will make...

and a unique crafts shopping center. Each cell has become a regional arts and crafts store. The visitor finds crafts, woodworks, city souvenirs, clay sculptures, antique fine textiles, typical food among other things. All hand-made objects.

Floriano Peixoto street, Santo Antonio

Monday through Friday - 9am/7pm; Saturday 9am/6pm; Sunday 10am/3pm

Pasárgada Area
Collection of works, reproduction of works, photos, newspaper articles, from the Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Bandeira

Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho was a poet, literary critic, and translator.Bandeira wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. In 1904, he found out that he suffered from tuberculosis, which encouraged him to move from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, because of Rio's tropical beach weather...

newspaper. Collected by himself in the home of his grandfather, where he spent his childhood.

263, União street, Boa Vista

Monday through Friday - 8am/6pm

Aeronautics Museum (Museu da Aeronáutica)

Olinda museums

Space Science Museum (Espaço Ciência Museu)
Its a interactive museum of technology, environment and scientific dissemination located between Recife

Recife

and Olinda

Olinda

Olinda is a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista...

. The area has also two astronomical observatories located outside its headquarters: one in the Malakoff Tower

Malakoff Tower

in Recife and the other one in the Alto da Sé IN Olinda. The space science promotes events, courses, workshops, and meetings of science in schools, universities, hospitals, etc.

Salgadinho neighborhood, Olinda

Tuesday through Sunday - 8am/5pm

Contemporary Art Museum of Pernambuco (MAC - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Pernambuco)
It has a vast collection of artists from Pernambuco as Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand

Francisco Brennand, or Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand, is a Brazilian sculptor. He works in several different media, and is best known for his work in ceramic sculpture.-Brennand's works:...

, Bajado and João. Besides the permanent collection the museum is always doing exhibitions.

149, 13 Maio street, Carmo

Monday through Friday - 9am/2.30pm

Puppets Museum (Museu do Mamulengo (area Tiridá))
Unique space in all South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

to save the art of the Mamulengo. This museum keeps a large body of research with over than 1500 pieces. Also, has the Mamulengo space designated Area Tiridá. This area consists in a theater with one hundred seats which are always being made spectacles of dolls/puppets of hand-molengos.

59, Amparo street, Amparo

Sacred Art Museum of Pernambuco
Pernambuco
Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

(MASP - Museu de Arte Sacra de Pernambuco

Pernambuco

)
Shows permanentely beautiful sacred pieces. Works where was the first Bishop palace in Pernambuco.

726, Bispo Coutinho street, Alto da Se, Olinda
Olinda
Olinda is a historic city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, located on the country's northeastern Atlantic Ocean coast, just north of Recife and south of Paulista...

Monday through Friday - 9am/1pm

Recife metropolitan area museums

Lula Cardoso Ayres Museum
Permanent exhibition of the artist's over than 300 works, including paintings, drawings, photographs, and studies.

1416, Herminio Alves Queiroz street, Piedade - Jaboatao dos Guararapes
Jaboatão dos Guararapes
Jaboatão dos Guararapes is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It is a part of the Recife metro area. The population was 687,688 according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in 2009, making it the second most-populous city in the state of Pernambuco and the 26th in...

Wednesday through Saturday - 4pm/8pm

Pinacoteca Museum of Igarassu
Art works from the seventeen and eighteen centuries, showing historical moments of the Pernambuco

Pernambuco

state.

Igarassu
Igarassu
Igarassu is a city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It is situated on the north coast of the metropolitan region of Recife, approximately 32 km north of the city of Recife...

city - 32 km North of Recife

Pernambuco museums

Una River Museum (Museu do Una)
The collection includes the biodiversity and culture of region's Hydrography

Hydrography

Hydrography is the measurement of the depths, the tides and currents of a body of water and establishment of the sea, river or lake bed topography and morphology. Normally and historically for the purpose of charting a body of water for the safe navigation of shipping...

watershed of the Una River, along the coastal ecosystems around the island between Tamandaré

Tamandaré

Tamandaré is a municipality and a beach located roughly south of Recife, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Zona da mata Pernambucana...

(PE) and Maragogi

Maragogi

Maragogi is a municipality of the Brazilian state of Alagoas in the 125 km north of Maceió capital city. Has 25,726 inhabitants, a city situated on the northern coast of Alagoas state, Brazil, being the easternmost city of that state....

(AL

Alagoas

Alagoas is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco ; Sergipe ; Bahia ; and the Atlantic Ocean . It occupies an area of 27,767 km², being slightly larger than Haiti...

Varzéa do Una - Sǎo José da Coroa Grande 105 km South

Friday through Sunday - 11am/5pm

Luis Gonzaga Museum (Museu Gonzagão)
Open in 1989, after the death of the great country musician Luiz Gonzaga

Luiz Gonzaga

Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento was a very prominent Brazilian folk singer, songwriter, musician and poet. Born in the countryside of Pernambuco , he is considered to be responsible for the promotion of northeastern music throughout the rest of the country...

, considered the King of Baião. Includes objects, discs, pictures, and various accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

s used by the musician.

Casa Branca highway, BR 122, Exú 670 km West

Monday through Friday - 7am/5pm and Saturday through Sunday - 7am/6pm

Semi Arid Museum or Sertão Museum
Sertão

Sertão

In Portuguese, the word sertão first referred to the vast hinterlands of Asia that Lusitanian explorers encountered. In Brazil, the geographical term referred to backlands away from the Atlantic coastal regions where the Portuguese first settled in South America in the early sixteenth century...

means semi arid in Portuguese, and this museum is about the life and history of the 'Sertão Pernambucano'. Which is portrayed through their work tools, weapons and objects used by the Brazilian cowboys. Also, has a plaster house replica often used by those people. This collection includes also relating material with Lampião

Lampião

"Captain" Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, better known as Lampião , was the most famous leader of a Cangaço band, marauders and outlaws who terrorized the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s.-Biography:...

, one of the famous Brazilian outlaws from the start of the last century.

Esmelinda Brandão street, Petrolina
Petrolina
Petrolina is a city located in the southernmost point of the state of Pernambuco, in Brazil. The population was 281.851 in 2009 in a total area of 4756.8 km²....

- 720 km West Recife
Recife
Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

Monday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday - 10am/6pm
Saturday - 2pm/6pm ; Sunday - 8am/12am

Cangaço Museum (Museu do Cangaço)
The history of Cangaço
Cangaço
Cangaço is the name given to a form of "social banditry" in the Northeast of Brazil in late 19th and early 20th centuries. This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hardships, and in a form of reaction against the domination of the land owners and the government, many men and women...

, one of the Brazilian revolutionary movement and also a life style is preserved in this collection. There are weapons, clothes, letters and various objects used by cangaceiros (cangaço outlaw mens) during the existence of the Lampião band. Lampião was the famous cangaceiro in the Northeast Region of Brazil in the start of the last century, and the way he operates is something similar to the Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....

in England, but for real.

Monsenhor Elizeu square, Triunfo, Pernambuco
Triunfo, Pernambuco
Triunfo is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2009, according with IBGE was 15.770 and the area is 191.52 km².-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Sertão Pernambucano...

- 400 km West

Monday through Saturday - 8am/12am and 2pm/5pm
Sunday - 8am/12am

Clay Museum (Museu do Barro - Zé Caboclo)
This museum offers to the visitors the best of the craft

Craft

A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.-Development from the past until...

clay

Clay

Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...

ceramic in the region. Exhibits works as artists as Master Vitalino, but also opens spaces for the new generation of artisans.

100, Coronel José Vasconcelos square, Tancredo Neves cultural center, Caruaru
Caruaru
Caruaru is a Brazilian city in the Pernambuco state. The most populous city in the interior of the state, it's located in the zone named Agreste and because of its cultural importance, it's known by its people as the Capital do Agreste and Princesinha do Agreste.130 kilometers from...

- 140 km West

Tuesday through Saturday - 8am/5pm and Sundays - 9am/1pm

Cachaça Museum or Brazilian Rum Museum
Its recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the largest collection of the Cachaça

Cachaça

Cachaça is a liquor made from fermented sugarcane.It is the most popular distilled alcoholic beverage in Brazil. It is also known as aguardente, pinga, caninha and many other names...

(also known as the Brazilian rum) in the world. Also, has large amount of related articles with this drink, as glasses, tables, pictures, poems, jokes and another decorative curiosities.

Carpina
Carpina
Carpina is a city in Pernambuco, Brazil. Its economy is based on commerce and footwear industry. Its current mayor is Manoel Botafogo.-Geography:* State - Pernambuco* Region - Zona da mata Pernambucana...

- 60 km North-West of Recife
Recife
Recife is the fifth-largest metropolitan area in Brazil with 4,136,506 inhabitants, the largest metropolitan area of the North/Northeast Regions, the 5th-largest metropolitan influence area in Brazil, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco. The population of the city proper...

; open all days 9am/5pm

Sacred Art Museum of Goiana (Museu de Arte Sacra de Goiana)
It has an exclusive hall for exhibition of Saints made by local artists with disabilities. There are also sacred art objects from the 17th to the 20th century.

Nossa Senhora dos Homens Pretos Church, Amparo street , Goiana
Goiana
Goiana is a city in Brazil in the northeast of the state of Pernambuco, about 65 km north of the city of Recife. It is built on a fertile plain between the rivers Tracunhaém and Capibaribe mirim near their junction to form the Goiana River, and is 25 km from the coast. It the easternmost...

- 65 km North

Monday through Friday 8am/5pm ; Saturday and Sunday - 8am/12am

Olinda museums

Recife metropolitan area museums

Pernambuco museums

See also