Museu Cais do Sertão, Cultural museum in Recife, Brazil.
Museu Cais do Sertão is a museum at Recife's waterfront that focuses on the culture of Brazil's semi-arid Sertão region. It has multiple exhibition spaces with interactive displays and multimedia installations that show different aspects of regional life.
The museum occupies Warehouse 10 of the Port of Recife, a building adapted for the collection. Its curatorship and creative direction were led by sociologist Isa Grinspum Ferraz, also responsible for the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo. The second module, with the Umbuzeiro space, the É do Povo auditorium and the São Francisco, Moxotó and Pajeú rooms, opened on 6 July 2018.
The museum displays everyday objects from Sertão communities and allows visitors to experience traditional crafts and musical instruments firsthand. You can see how people in this semi-arid region live and work through the collection.
The building sits near Recife's waterfront and is easy to reach, with accessibility features for visitors with disabilities. It makes sense to check opening times before visiting and allow enough time to explore the exhibitions.
The museum occupies the former Warehouse 10 of the Port of Recife, and its second module opened on 6 July 2018. That module added the Umbuzeiro open-air hall of 1,120 m² with a 6 m ceiling, plus the É do Povo auditorium seating 272 people. The São Francisco room (444 m²) hosts temporary exhibitions.
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