Olinda Museum of Contemporary Art — MAC

Historical and cultural context

Museum located in the old Aljube and Capela de São Pedro Advíncula, bringing together a wide collection of modern and contemporary art. Meu Recife places the site within the editorial thread “Olinda · museums · studios”. This reading first establishes the documented cultural role, then keeps it separate from mutable hours, admission and exhibition programming.

What to notice on site

Begin with these source-grounded themes: modernist solutions and the use of cobogó. They are not a generic attraction checklist, but prompts derived from this specific profile's evidence. Compare the collection with the building that contains it, and notice how the institution connects memory, research and public narrative.

Relationship with the city and district

Olinda Museum of Contemporary Art — MAC is in Historic Centre, Olinda. The atlas connects it to the “Olinda · museums · studios” circuit, grouping places by theme and geography without inventing a single chronology. Treat the approach, nearby streets and shifts in urban scale as part of the visit: they explain how the place belongs to this part of the city.

Verified facts

Every fact below is linked to this profile’s source codes.

Location

Historic Centre · Olinda

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Listed address

Rua 13 de Maio, s/n

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Documented focus

Museum located in the old Aljube and Capela de São Pedro Advíncula, bringing together a wide collection of modern and contemporary art.

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Evidence basis

Identity, location and cultural relevance are supported by primary evidence.

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Original Meu Recife editorial copy based only on this profile's source codes. It does not reproduce third-party text in full or turn a community-guide opinion into fact.

Before visiting

Reference address

Rua 13 de Maio, s/n, Sítio Histórico, Olinda — PE

Museums & memory

1–2 hours

What can change

Hours, tickets, accessibility and temporary closures can change. Confirm with the official source before visiting.

Getting there

Coordinates cross-checked against multiple mapping sources

Reference address

Rua 13 de Maio, s/n

District and city

Sítio Histórico · Olinda, PE

Verified coordinates

-8.016198, -34.853460