Museu Villa-Lobos, Music museum in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Museu Villa-Lobos is a museum in Rio de Janeiro dedicated to composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, housed in a 19th-century building listed by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage. Its collection includes objects and documents about his life and work, musical instruments, books, scores, recordings, tapes, and a collection of conducting batons.

The museum honors Heitor Villa-Lobos, who in the early 1900s created compositions blending Brazilian folk music with European classical traditions. His innovative approach made him central to how Brazil developed its own musical identity.

The space shows how Brazilian folk music and European classical traditions came together in Villa-Lobos' work. Visitors can see through the exhibitions how this composer created a personal musical language that connected both worlds.

The museum is located on Rua Sorocaba in Botafogo and can be reached easily by public transport or on foot. Checking ahead for opening hours and current exhibitions helps plan your visit, as this allows time to explore the collections at a comfortable pace.

The museum holds a collection of conducting batons, alongside recordings, tapes, musical instruments, books and scores. In 2020 it launched the virtual exhibition "Native Brazilian Music" with 50 photographs and audio recordings of Brazilian songs, shown on Google Arts & Culture together with letters between Leopold Stokowski and Villa-Lobos and newspaper clippings.