Museum Afro Brasil, Ethnographic museum in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil.
Museu Afro-Brasil is an 11,000-square-meter building designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer located within Ibirapuera Park. The exhibition spaces display over 6,000 works including historical objects, photographs, and documents spanning different periods and cultural areas.
The museum was established to document and preserve African influences in Brazil. It was created to make visible the stories and contributions of African peoples in Brazilian society.
The museum displays artworks, sculptures, and textiles representing African and Afro-Brazilian traditions as living cultural practices. You can see how these forms of expression remain part of everyday Brazilian life across many different communities.
The museum is located within São Paulo's largest urban park and is open Tuesday through Sunday. The park is easily accessible by public transportation, and the grounds are walkable for visitors of different mobility levels.
The museum maintains a specialized library of roughly 12,000 titles focused on African descendants in Brazil. This collection ranks among the largest of its kind in the Americas and draws researchers and visitors from around the world.
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