Museu Casa do Anhanguera, Colonial museum in Historic center of Santana de Parnaíba, Brazil.

Museu Casa do Anhanguera is a single-story 17th-century bandeirista house at Largo da Matriz 19 in Santana de Parnaíba. Its outer walls are rammed earth (taipa de pilão) and its inner walls wattle-and-daub (taipa de mão), with a three-slope roof and wooden door and window frames of canela preta. A loft stored provisions, and the museum displays objects donated by local residents, including a bed reserved for the upper class.

The house dates from the 17th century and is presumed to have been the residence of the bandeirante Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, known as Anhanguera. It was restored and listed by IPHAN in 1958. It is the only urban bandeirista house in São Paulo state to keep its architectural features to this day.

The house is a rare urban bandeirista residence without a private chapel or a guest room, spaces that rural bandeirista houses had. Its collection, mostly donated by local residents, includes a bed that was an object reserved for the upper class.

The museum is at Largo da Matriz 19, in the historic centre of Santana de Parnaíba, next to the church square. The single-storey house has low doorways and a steep three-slope roof, so watch your head. Allow time to examine the rammed-earth walls and the objects donated by local residents.

This is the only surviving urban bandeirista house in Sao Paulo state that keeps its original colonial architecture completely intact. Its construction methods show craftsmanship techniques that have not survived elsewhere in the region in this form.