Regional de Olinda Museum

The Regional Museum of Olinda (Mureo) is a house museum that restructure, together with their surroundings, the scene of domestic and social life of the residents of Olinda 1700. The MUREO is situated in an old episcopal residence, a beautiful colonial-style solar dated 1745, and was founded in 1935 to commemorate the fourth centenary of the arrival of Duarte Coelho then the captaincy of Pernambuco.

The collection brings together the house-museum furniture, paintings, panels, dishes, silverware and pieces of great historical value to the social, religious and political city, as the arms of the Senate Chamber of Olinda. The permanent exhibition of Mureo was assembled according to the spatial characteristics of the original house and the customs of its first residents, and eventually transport the visitor to the everyday life of the eighteenth century.

Among its collection of furniture stands out a beautiful seventeenth century cabinet in rosewood and pink padded doors, which belonged to the Senate of Olinda. Is also exposed in a very original house museum crib from the eighteenth century polychrome clay, authored by Portuguese artisan Machado de Castro.

The museum also has in its collection of sacred art pieces, including an altar that belonged to the old Cathedral of Olinda, before his retirement in 1711. The Mureo is part of network of cultural facilities of the Foundation of Historical and Artistic Heritage of Pernambuco (Fundarpe).

Visiting hours: Tuesday to Friday (9:00 am to 12:00 and from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm), Saturday and Sunday (from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm)
Info:+55 81 3184 3159
E-mail: ddcultural.fundarpe @ gmail.com

Address: Amparo Street, 122 - Olinda

http://www.fundarpe.pe.gov.br/mureo/comp/

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