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Museums & memory · Recife / Casa Forte

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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Museum of the People of Northeast Brazil — Original Meu Recife editorial illustration — not a documentary photograph.
Original Meu Recife editorial illustration — not a documentary photograph. · Meu Recife
Description automatically translated from the Portuguese editorial summary.
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Historical and cultural context

Joaquim Nabuco Foundation Museum dedicated to the social formation, daily life, arts and cultures of the people of the Northeast. Meu Recife places the site within the editorial thread “Recife · memory · identities”. This reading first establishes the documented cultural role, then keeps it separate from mutable hours, admission and exhibition programming.

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What to notice on site

Begin with these source-grounded themes: collection; exhibition narrative; building. 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.

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Relationship with the city and district

Museum of the People of Northeast Brazil is in Casa Forte, Recife. The atlas connects it to the “Recife · memory · identities” 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.

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Verified facts

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

Location
Casa Forte · Recife
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Listed address
Av. Dezessete de Agosto, 2187
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Documented focus
Joaquim Nabuco Foundation Museum dedicated to the social formation, daily life, arts and cultures of the people of the Northeast.
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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.

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Before visiting

Reference address
Av. Dezessete de Agosto, 2187, Casa Forte, Recife — PE
Museums & memory
1–2 hours
What can change
Hours, tickets, accessibility and temporary closures can change. Confirm with the official source before visiting.
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Getting there

Coordinates published by an institutional source

Reference address
Av. Dezessete de Agosto, 2187
District and city
Casa Forte · Recife, PE
Verified coordinates
-8.030196, -34.925281
Coordinates published by an institutional source · map © OpenStreetMap