Museu do Expedicionário, Military history museum in Curitiba, Brazil.
The Museu do Expedicionário is a military museum in Curitiba dedicated to the role of Brazilian troops in World War II. It displays uniforms, weapons, photographs, and written documents from that period.
Veterans from Paraná founded the Legião Paranaense do Expedicionário on 20 November 1946, then raised funds through parties, raffles and donations to build the Casa do Expedicionário, inaugurated on 15 November 1951 to a design by engineer Euro Brandão. A room there housed the museum, then called Max Wolff Filho. On 29 July 1980 the legion signed an agreement with the Paraná State Culture Secretariat, which took over the museum's administration, conservation and security.
The museum holds personal objects brought back by Brazilian soldiers, including handwritten letters and wartime diaries. These items give a human face to a chapter of Brazilian history that many visitors know little about.
The museum sits near Praça do Expedicionário and is easy to reach on foot from the city center. Information panels are in Portuguese, so a guided tour can be helpful for visitors who do not read the language.
Among the objects on display are communication devices used by Brazilian soldiers during the Italian campaign. Some of these pieces came from allied forces, showing how equipment passed between nations in the field.
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