Museu Histórico e Artístico de Planaltina, Museum in Planaltina, Distrito Federal, Brazil
The Museu Histórico e Artístico de Planaltina occupies a 19th or early 20th-century house with Portuguese architecture, featuring white walls and blue trim. Inside are displays of old photographs, documents, and household objects that trace the town's development.
Afonso Coelho da Silva Campos built the house between the 19th and 20th centuries; it was one of the few in Planaltina with piped water, electricity and telephone. Colonel Salviano Monteiro Guimarães, his wife Olívia Campos Guimarães and their eight children were its first residents. Their daughter Maria América lived there with her husband and seven children until 1973, when she transferred it to the Federal District Government by amicable expropriation to house the museum, inaugurated on 22 April 1974.
The museum tells stories of the community's traditions and daily routines through old household items, clothing, and photographs on display. Visitors can see how people lived and worked in the early days of the town.
The museum sits in the Setor Tradicional, block 57, and the square facing it is named after Colonel Salviano Monteiro Guimarães. It opens Wednesday to Sunday, mornings and afternoons, and closes at midday. After a restoration it reopened in March 2017 following five years shut.
One of the museum's most notable pieces is a piano imported from Germany in 1925, considered the first piano brought to the Goiás region. This instrument reflects the European cultural influences on the town's early society.
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