The best museums Brazil

The story of the Italian quarter of Sampa and Italian immigration.

More than 2 000 works by Brazilian artists, mainly from 1960 to 1990.

In the vast modern residence of Oscar Americano, works from the th century of Di Cavalcanti, Lasar Segall, but also imperial times. Also a cosy tea salon and sometimes classical music concerts.

It offers a beautiful collection of local art.

He generally exhibits good exhibitions on the Indians in the region.

Built around 1905, it is as much a facade as it is a temporary art exhibition. On the façade are the statues of Ceres (goddess of agriculture) and Hermes, under the coat of arms of the Republic. Another allegory is that of the statues representing Industry, Fishing, Navigation and Architecture. Inside the museum the white marble elements, geometric floors in exotic woods, carved stucco ceilings and coloured azulejos. Café and shop on site.

The powder museum. This thick and blind building was built in 1708 and houses a museum of the city, open morning and afternoon except on Mondays.

The museu do barro is dedicated, as its name indicates, to terracotta pottery. The Nordeste is a land where this craft tradition is omnipresent. There is a lot of pottery on display, including about 70 original works by Mestre Vitalino, the most famous potter.

Alto da Moura: For those who are interested in the art of pottery, 6 km from Caruaru is the village of Alto do Moura, which is the real regional capital of this speciality, and where Mestre Vitalino comes from. The easiest way to get there is to take a taxi from Caruaru.

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of the University of São Paulo (USP) celebrated its 50 years in 2013. Its history began with the transfer to the USP of the collections of the old museum of modern art in São Paulo. Today the MAC operates on three sites in town, including this one in L, where the public can enjoy high-quality temporary exhibitions throughout the year. In total, he has a fund of 10 000 works: oils, drawings, etchings, sculptures, objects and conceptual works… The biggest names here are Michelangelo Amedeo or Paul Klee, the Fauves Matisse and Dufy, the Picasso Picasso and Braque, the Abstractionnistes, Léger, Picabia, Alexander Calder, the surrealist Chagall, Ernst, Miro… This is for the foreign canvases, reminiscent of the collection of our Beaubourg museum in Paris.

We will also delight in the Brazilian component of the museum, dedicated to modernist artists, for the most part, such as Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, Victor Brecheret, Vicente do Rego Monteiro and John Graz, all exhibitors of the Modern Art Week, which mark its time in 1922. The avant-garde of the 1930 ' s is not in rest, the collection counts many works of Carvalho de Carvalho, Aldo Bonadei, Francisco Rebolo… Noted the social theme developed by Innichen Portinari and Clóvis Graciano and the graphic arts addressed by Edith Behring and Renina Katz.

Finally, the collection of contemporary art is logically the most extensive. One can cite the great international masters who are exposed here, such as the post-modern surrealist Antonio Tàpies, and the great names of optical art such as Vasarely, or the pop art of Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg.

From the 1960 s, the Biennale of art in São Paulo changed trends, and the wave of abstract expressionism and neo-concrete art developed in Brazil, reflecting the works of Lygia Clark, Iberê Camargo, Maria Leontina, Yolanda Mohalyi, Tomie Ohtake and Arcângelo Ianelli, the most Emblematic.

Finally more conceptual, the "combinations" of Nelson Remaking, Geraldo de Barros, Artur Barrio, Antônio Dias, José Roberto Aguilar, Cláudio Tozzi, Wesley Duke Lee, or Cildo Meireles are interesting. The conceptual art involving installations, performances and videos includes its Brazilian representatives, such as Mario Cravo Neto, Iole de Freitas or Julio Plaza.

In a comical Art Nouveau style (dating from 1876), the building housed until 1969 the government palace of Paraná. Today it has several exhibitions that pay tribute to the creation of Paraná and its society. There are coins, a piano from 1843 and a collection of weapons. In the side building, on exhibition panels there are scenes of immigrants arriving in Paraná, Tupi tribes and scenes reminiscent of the riots that enamelled the history of Paraná or Curitiba.

Interesting, covers all sectors of communication: press, TV, cinema, radio, advertising, disco, more than five thousand 78 towers.

The museum was founded in 1979 by Gilberto Freyre as a result of the merger of three other museums: the Museum of Anthropology (1961-1978), the Museum of Popular Art (1955-1978) and the Sugar Museum (1963-1978). It is a reference in the whole region, especially for its research in the areas of anthropology, sugar culture and popular art. Origins, works, beliefs, habitat, habits and customs that reveal the cultural diversity of the Nordeste.

The museum has been housed since 1940 in the beautiful Palacete, a 19th century building in the Graças district, the former residence of Dr. Augusto Frederico de Oliveira, son of the Baron of Beberibe. It has an important and varied collection of pieces related to the history of the State from its creation in the 16th to the 19th century: war relics, furniture, jewels, coins, paintings, instruments, etc. Important collection of art from the colonial and Dutch periods.

The "fantasias" of the Rio Carnival are world-famous, those of the Recife and Olinda Carnivals are less so. Like the "giants" of the carnivals of the North, the large dolls that parade through the streets of Recife and Olinda during the carnival rest in this museum the rest of the year. They are made up of singers, actors, politicians and showbiz figures, and there are many personalities whose effigies have been transformed into these big men.

Located in this historic village, the Igreja do Convento de São Francisco, which dates from 1693, houses the small Museu de Arte Sacra, a collection of sacred art considered the third most important in Brazil, with about 500 objects on display. Some of the pieces are of great finesse. Lovers of sacred art will appreciate this beautiful work. The cloister of the convent is also worth seeing. For a little, one would think of Olinda or Salvador de Bahia.

The oldest museum in Sergipe has a rich and diverse collection of objects and relics important in the history of the State of Sergipe. Paintings, art objects and historical documents are on display. There are furniture from the 19th and 20th centuries, various paintings, busts of Sergipe personalities, coin collections, as well as rare objects and photos of "cangaço" characters (honorary bandits from the Nordeste like Lampiao).