Mariano Procópio Museum, History museum in Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

The Mariano Procópio Museum is a history museum in Juiz de Fora occupying two buildings: a 19th-century villa and an exhibition building from the 1920s. Together, these structures house around 45,000 objects including paintings, sculptures, documents, photographs, furniture, silverware, armor, coins, clothing, and natural history collections.

The villa was built in 1861 to host Emperor Dom Pedro II during the inauguration of the Uniao e Industria Road, reflecting the city's importance in the 19th century. A second building was added later as the collection grew and more exhibition space became necessary.

The collection is strongest on Brazil's imperial period: many pieces came from the Palácio São Cristóvão, Dom Pedro II's residence in Rio de Janeiro. It holds paintings by Fragonard, Daubigny and Willem Roelofs alongside Brazilian artists Pedro Américo, Rodolfo Amoedo and Belmiro de Almeida, plus 19th-century plaster casts by Clodion and Rodolfo Bernardelli.

The two exhibition galleries in the Prédio Mariano Procópio and the Villa Ferreira Lage can be visited Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 4pm and weekends from 10:30am to 4pm. The surrounding park opens Tuesday to Sunday, 8am to 5pm. Parts of the collection and gardens were closed for restoration, so check which spaces are open before travelling.

The villa's exterior is built of exposed solid bricks, with ornamentation made from bricks cut with flutes and rounded edges. The interior keeps its original painted and papered walls, stucco ceilings and hardwood wainscoting. The Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz called the surrounding gardens "the paradise of the tropics".