Museu do Tropeiro, Historical museum in Castro, Brazil
The Museu do Tropeiro occupies an 18th-century building with a stone foundation and wooden columns supporting the structure. Inside are roughly 2,500 artifacts including clothing, saddles, equipment, and tools from the region's droving tradition.
The museum was founded in 1977 to preserve the legacy of tropeiros, drovers who transported goods during colonial times across southern regions. The collection records an important period in the region's trading history.
The collection displays items from the daily life of tropeiros, the drovers who moved through southern Brazil and shaped the region. These objects tell the story of their work and their importance to local identity.
The museum sits at Praça Getúlio Vargas and reopened in 2017 after three years of renovation with improved exhibition spaces. Plan to spend several hours to take in the extensive collection at a comfortable pace.
The building demonstrates pau-a-pique construction, where a wooden framework was filled with clay, a regional building method rarely seen today. This technique is a rare surviving example of colonial-era craftsmanship in the region.
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