Slavery and memory
Told in objects.
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The Museu Afro Brasil, in Ibirapuera Park, is dedicated to the history, art and culture of Black people in Brazil. The Bahian artist Emanoel Araújo founded it in 2004 in the Manoel da Nóbrega Pavilion, designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1959, and it holds around 6,000 objects from the 15th century to today, described as the largest collection of Afro-descendant art in the Americas. Its sections cover Africa, work, slavery, history and memory, religions and the arts, with paintings, sculpture, photographs, documents and ethnographic objects, including 20th-century works by Afro-Brazilian artists such as Rubem Valentim and Heitor dos Prazeres. It also has a theatre and a specialist library. Tickets cost R$15 (half price R$7.50), and entry is free on Wednesdays; Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-17:00, stay until 18:00.
Told in objects.
20th-century works.
In Ibirapuera.
Ibirapuera Park, near Gate 10, São Paulo
Yes, entry is free every Wednesday; on other days it costs R$15.
