Museu Casa Velha da Fazenda Gama, Historic farm museum in Park Way, Brazil.
The Museu Casa Velha da Fazenda Gama is the 18th-century headquarters of a 161-hectare farm, built in Brazilian colonial style. The house has wooden details, high ceilings, and a fabric lining on the ceiling of the couples' room that reduced noise and kept out insects, birds, and bats. It is 20 km from Brasília and 300 meters from the Catetinho.
Founded around 1818, this historic farmhouse served as temporary headquarters for President Juscelino Kubitschek during his first visit to the Central Plateau in 1956.
The house is now a museum called Casa Velha, where the Café com História project, created by guide Maria Ribeiro, gathers visitors for a snack and stories told by a historian or a pioneer of Brasília's construction. Exhibits include domestic objects such as a basin and jug, trunk, suitcase, lamp and chamber pot, and a chintz ceiling lining in the couples' room that muffled intimate noises and kept out insects, birds and bats.
Located 20 kilometers from Brasília on BR-040 highway, the museum offers guided tours and educational activities about regional history and colonial architecture.
The first radio transmitter in Brasília was installed here by Panair on 28 October 1956, working with Novacap to link the construction site to the Palácio do Catete in Rio de Janeiro and to support flights. The house also lodged technicians and workers of the farm's landing strip.
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