Escola de Artes e Ofícios Thomaz Pompeu Sobrinho, Heritage education center in Fortaleza, Brazil.

The Escola de Artes e Ofícios Thomaz Pompeu Sobrinho is an educational institution housed in a three-story palace with over 30 rooms in downtown Fortaleza. The building, surrounded by gardens, now serves as a center for teaching craftsmanship and artistic skills to young people.

The palace dates to 1929 and was built in Italian art-nouveau style. The school was founded in 2002 and has since used this architecturally significant building to provide free training in various disciplines.

The school bears the name of a prominent local intellectual and teaches traditional craft techniques rooted in the region. Visitors see students combining historical methods like woodcut printing with embroidery, continuing local artistic traditions through hands-on work.

The center offers free courses in restoration, conservation, woodblock printing, and traditional crafts for public school students and socially disadvantaged youth. Training programs focus on hands-on learning and serve those seeking access to professional skills.

The school's first restoration job was its own headquarters, the Palacete Thomaz Pompeu Sobrinho, a 1929 house protected by Ceará state law 9.109/68. Restorers Júlio Barros and Turinã Inácio worked 13 months to return walls, tiles, staircase, doors, windows, roof and floors to their original design.