Museu Casa de Anita, Colonial museum in Laguna, Brazil

Museu Casa de Anita occupies a yellow Portuguese-Brazilian colonial house built in 1711, featuring traditional architectural details from this period in southern Brazil. The rooms display historical artifacts, documents, and multimedia presentations about the life of the person connected to this residence.

The house dates from 1711. In 1835 Anita Garibaldi dressed here for her first marriage, to the shoemaker Manoel Duarte de Aguiar. The building was restored twice, in the 1970s and again in 2019, and is now managed by the Fundação Lagunense de Cultura.

The collection covers Anita Garibaldi's life and her relationship with Giuseppe Garibaldi, shown through period furniture and personal utensils. A highlight is an urn holding soil from her grave. The house is run by the Fundação Lagunense de Cultura.

The museum is located in Laguna's old town and is easily accessible on foot from the waterfront. The rooms are compact, making it possible to see everything in about an hour without much physical effort.

The museum keeps an urn holding soil from Anita Garibaldi's grave in Italy, a link between Laguna and her burial place in Europe. The collection also gathers period furniture and personal utensils that belonged to her. The building itself dates from 1711 and was restored in the 1970s and again in 2019.