Museu da Vida, Community museum in Curitiba, Brazil

Museu da Vida is a museum in Curitiba with six indoor exhibitions and two outdoor recreation areas designed for family learning. The spaces feature hands-on activities and interactive stations that visitors can explore at their own pace.

The museum was founded in 2014 as an initiative of Pastoral da Criança to document its work with communities. It preserves more than 30 years of history from an organization dedicated to supporting children and families.

The Galeria da Vida displays handcrafted objects illustrating daily life in the communities Pastoral da Criança serves, alongside the mission of its founder, Zilda Arns Neumann. A memorial room traces her life through photographs, videos, documents and personal objects, from her childhood and medical training as a paediatrician and sanitarian to her last trip, to Haiti in 2010.

The museum occupies a building from the 1950s in the Mercês neighbourhood, originally the Lar-Escola Hermínia Lupion (Lar das Meninas), which also houses the national coordination of Pastoral da Criança. The grounds cover 13,000 m² of Atlantic Forest, and the Trilha do Bosque trail runs 460 m through it. The outdoor Rua do Brincar is set aside for free group play.

The outdoor area covers 13,000 m² of Atlantic Forest, crossed by the 460 m Trilha do Bosque, a forest trail used for walking and play. The Rua do Brincar is an open-air street for free group games. The building was originally the Lar-Escola Hermínia Lupion, a girls' home-school from the 1950s.