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The Museu do Homem do Nordeste or Museum of the Man of the Northeast in Recife in the state of Pernambuco is the result of bringing together the collections of the former Museu do Açúcar, Museu de Antropologia and Museu de Arte Popular. Opened to the public in 1979, it is part of the Documentation Institute of the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation.
The collections of the Museu do Homem do Nordeste are exhibited in three sectors: Sugar, Oh de Casa! and Anthropology. The first addresses the cultural, historical and technological aspects of sugarcane culture, of fundamental importance in the formation of the Northeastern people.
The second shows elements of the regional construction process, trying to reproduce the Northeastern “dwelling”. Finally, the third represents man in sets of objects referring to his ethnicity and cultural background.
The collection of the Museum of the Man of the Northeast, representative of the historical, ethnic and social formation of the current Northeast Region, has about 15,000 pieces, cultural heritages of the Indian, the European and the African in the formation of the Brazilian Northeast.
From construction materials of the 18th and 19th centuries to the mocambos; from ex-votos to objects of Afro-black cults; from rag dolls and popular toys to regional ceramics by Vitalino, Nhô Caboclo, Zé Rodrigues, Porfírio Faustino and other notable and anonymous artists of the people.
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Museu do Homem do Nordeste em Recife
From the technologies of sugar work to life in the big houses and senzalas. All this makes up the collection of one of the most important historical-anthropological museums in Brazil.
The Museum of the Man of the Northeast is a reference in contemporary museology for its performance in the educational-cultural area, increasingly consolidating its integration with society, especially with schools, universities, governmental and non-governmental institutions, cultural agents, among others.
For visitors, the Museum is a rare opportunity to discover, question and build, through museological records, the Man of the Northeast.
Museum of the Man of the Northeast in Recife
