Museum of the People of Northeast Brazil
Joaquim Nabuco Foundation Museum dedicated to the social formation, daily life, arts and cultures of the people of the Northeast.
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Murillo La Greca Museum
Municipal equipment dedicated to the work of Murillo La Greca and modern and contemporary artistic production.
Museum of the City of Recife — Five Points Fort
Urban history museum installed in a fortification of Dutch origin, with an iconographic and documentary collection about Recife.
Forte do Brum Military Museum
Listed historic fortification, today linked to military memory and the origins of the Army in the Northeast.
Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art — MAMAM
Municipal museum of modern and contemporary art, with exhibitions, research, training and educational activities.
Golden Chapel and Franciscan Museum of Sacred Art
Part of the Franciscan complex in Recife, famous for its baroque gilded carvings and collection of sacred art.
Magdalena and Gilberto Freyre House Museum
Preserved residence of Gilberto Freyre, with library, furniture, personal objects, gardens and intellectual memory.
Francisco Brennand Museum-Studio
A museum-studio in a former ceramics factory where architecture, tropical gardens and Francisco Brennand’s work form a single environment.
Ricardo Brennand Institute
Museum complex with a picture gallery, library, weapons collection and an important collection of works linked to Dutch Brazil.
Pernambuco State Museum
State museum in a historic mansion, with collections of archaeology, art, history, indigenous, Afro-Brazilian culture and sacred art.
Museum of Abolition — Afro-Brazilian Culture Centre
Federal museum dedicated to the memory of slavery, abolition, resistance and Afro-Brazilian cultures.
Pernambuco Archaeological, Historical and Geographic Institute
Research institution with documentation, library and collections linked to the history and formation of Pernambuco.
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