Wooden buildings
Built in two months.
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The «candangos» were the workers who came from all over Brazil to build the new capital in the middle of the country in the late 1950s, and this museum keeps their memory. It occupies the buildings of the Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Hospital, the Federal District's first hospital, near Núcleo Bandeirante, the old temporary town the workers lived in, then called the «Free City». The hospital was set up to treat workers injured on the building sites, along with births, children and family care, and was a group of 23 wooden buildings put up in just two months, an expression of the hurried «spirit of Brasília»; it opened on 6 July 1957. After it was listed as heritage in 1985, restoration of the doctors' houses, wards and hospital building began, and they became a museum. The museum has three permanent exhibitions on the building of Brasília and the lives of the workers and their families; the wooden buildings are themselves part of the display, and it hosts craft workshops and music evenings. Entry is free, Monday to Saturday 9:00-17:00.
Built in two months.
The capital's builders.
Crafts and music.
Setor Juscelino Kubitschek, Lote D, Núcleo Bandeirante, Brasília
The workers who came from all over Brazil to build Brasília in the late 1950s; the museum keeps their memory.