Casa de Juvenal Galeno, A museum in Brazil

Casa de Juvenal Galeno is a historic building in downtown Fortaleza with ten rooms containing books, personal items of the poet, and artworks from the 19th century. It features two auditoriums and a garden with large trees that provides space for performances.

Juvenal Galeno built the house in 1888 and lived there until his death in 1931, when he was 95 and blind; he left it in the care of his daughter Henriqueta Galeno. On 27 September 1919 he founded the house as a cultural institution, which the Ceará state government now maintains through its Secretariat of Culture. It is currently directed by Amilcar Galeno.

The house serves as headquarters for around twenty cultural bodies, among them the Academia de Letras dos Municípios Cearenses, the Associação Cearense de Escritores, the Centro Cultural dos Cordelistas do Nordeste, the Comissão Cearense de Folclore, the Grupo Chocalho and the Associação dos Humoristas Cearenses. They hold regular meetings in its rooms and exchange with related groups across Brazil, presenting Ceará's artistic output. The Academia de Letras Juvenal Galeno and the Academia Feminina de Letras do Ceará also meet here.

The house sits in Fortaleza's centre, in Ceará, and is run by the state Secretariat of Culture; Amilcar Galeno directs it today. Inside, ten rooms hold the library and the two auditoriums: the Juvenal Galeno hall seats 120 people, while the open-air Nenzinha Galeno auditorium stands shaded by mango trees. Twenty cultural entities, from the Academia de Letras dos Municípios Cearenses to the Grupo Chocalho, meet here regularly.

Juvenal Galeno lived in the house until his death in 1931, blind, at the age of 95, and left it in the care of his daughter Henriqueta Galeno. The outdoor auditorium, shaded by mango trees, is named Nenzinha Galeno.