Museu da Borracha Governador Geraldo Mesquita, Rubber industry museum in Rio Branco, Brazil.
The Museu da Borracha Governador Geraldo Mesquita preserves the history of rubber production in the Amazon region through tools, photographs, and documents spanning multiple periods. The collection documents the techniques of latex extraction and processing methods used historically in this area.
The museum was created by state decree on 3 April 1978 and inaugurated on 5 November 1978, during Geraldo Gurgel de Mesquita's administration, for the centenary of the northeastern migration to Acre. Its first home was on Avenida Getúlio Vargas; in 1986 it moved to the headquarters of the Fundação Elias Mansour. Since 1990 it has occupied the former SUDHEVA building, a 510 m² structure on Avenida Ceará in central Rio Branco.
A recreated rubber tapper's home displays the everyday objects and clothing worn by these workers, showing how they lived during the extraction era. The setting gives visitors a direct sense of their daily routines and working conditions.
The museum occupies a 510 m² building on Avenida Ceará in central Rio Branco, with exhibition rooms, a technical reserve, a library, an archive and a 60-seat auditorium. It runs permanent educational activities for students, teachers and general visitors. The library specialises in the history of Acre and Amazonas and holds about 4,700 volumes.
Interactive projections show rubber tappers engaged in latex smoking and weighing processes while audio testimonies from rubber soldiers recount their recruitment and experiences. These personal accounts add a human dimension to the industrial history on display.
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