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Afro Brazil Museum, São Paulo, Brazil

The Afro Brasil Museum is a historical, artistic and ethnological museum, dedicated to research, conservation and exhibition of objects related to the cultural universe of blacks in Brazil. It is located in Ibirapuera Park, in São Paulo, in the “Padre Manuel da Nóbrega Pavilion” – building belonging to the park’s…

Afro Brazil Museum, São Paulo, Brazil

Long term Exhibitions, Afro Brasil Museum

The Permanent exhibition encompasses several facets of the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural universes, addressing themes such as religion, work, art, the African diaspora and slavery, and recording the historical trajectory and African influences in the construction ofBrazilian society. With over 6,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, documents and ethnological…

Long term Exhibitions, Afro Brasil Museum

São Paulo 461 – Stories and Memories of a Metropolis, Afro Brasil Museum

On the 461th anniversary of São Paulo, the Afro Brasil Museum, an institution of the State Secretariat of Culture of SP, undertakes a search for the capital of São Paulo, a discovery of what has been done, of what has been produced, of what has been recorded, of the passage…

São Paulo 461 – Stories and Memories of a Metropolis, Afro Brasil Museum

Banzo, Love and the Home Kitchen, Afro Brasil Museum

Fifty paintings, drawings and sculptures form the set of pieces from the exhibition “Banzo, Love and the Home Kitchen” , by the artist Sidney Amaral, at the Afro Brasil Museum, Institution of the Secretary of Culture of the State of São Paulo. The plastic artist won the Funarte Prize for…

Banzo, Love and the Home Kitchen, Afro Brasil Museum

The Ritual of the Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary, Afro Brasil Museum

The double exhibition “José de Guimarães – The Ritual of the Serpent: 10 Gouaches Inspired by the Work of Aby Warburg” and “The Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary”, which displays around 100 works that capture the symbolism of the snake in the arts. The snake is the subject of these…

The Ritual of the Serpent in the Artistic Imaginary, Afro Brasil Museum

Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets”, explore the natural techniques used by communities in Africa to create beautiful textiles. The Afro Brasil Museum, an institution of the São Paulo State Department of Culture, reveals the beauty, symmetry, and diversity of patterns and decorative styles of Bakuba fabrics. The…

Arte Bakuba – Raffias and Velvets, Afro Brasil Museum

Alfred Weidinger: The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings”, curated by Emanoel Araújo, curator-director of the Afro Brasil Museum, the exhibition brings together 58 color and B&W photographs of the Austrian Alfred Weidinger, who portrayed contemporary kings and chiefs from different parts of the African continent, in addition to…

Alfred Weidinger: The Spirit of Africa – The African Kings, Afro Brasil Museum

Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery, Afro Brasil Museum

The exhibition “Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery”, celebrate Black Awareness Day that year, the exhibition brings together more than 70 objects from urban and rural crafts, composing a set that highlights the contributions of blacks to science and technology in Brazil. The visitor can check…

Art, Adornment, Design and Technology in the Time of Slavery, Afro Brasil Museum

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