Farroupilha revolution
Papers and objects.
The Dom Diogo de Souza Museum in Bagé, southern Rio Grande do Sul, near the border with Uruguay, was founded by the historian Tarcísio Taborda on 20 September 1956. Since 22 March 1975 it has occupied the building of the Portuguese Beneficent Society, and it belongs to the University of the Campanha Region. The museum is named after Dom Diogo de Souza, founder of Bagé, and grew out of an exhibition held in 1955 for the bicentenary of his birth. It holds more than two thousand items on the history of Brazil, the state, Bagé and the western border: clothing, personal and household objects and furniture, items from the daily life of Indigenous peoples, and uniforms and weapons of eighteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese units. The collection also includes documents, letters, photographs and objects from the Farroupilha (1835–1845), Federalist (1893) and Liberating (1923) revolutions, along with two newspaper archives and two photo archives holding fifteen thousand historical images. Check opening times before visiting.
Papers and objects.
Spanish and Portuguese.
15,000 images.
Rua Emílio Guilain 759, Bagé, Rio Grande do Sul
The founder of Bagé, after whom the museum is named.