The Bahia Museum of Art ( Portuguese: Museu de Arte da Bahia) is a museum located in

Salvador de Bahia Salvador () is a Municipalities of Brazil, Brazilian municipality and capital city of the Federative units of Brazil, state of Bahia. Situated in the Zona da Mata in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of Brazil, Salvador is recognize ...

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. This museum is one of the oldest museums in the State of Bahia.

History

The museum was created to preserve the historical and ethnographic heritage of Salvador de Bahia, over time, the museum focused on expanding its catalog of collections in the arts. The museum was founded in 1918. In 1982, the museum moved to the Vitória Palace. The Vitória Palace was formerly used as the headquarters of the Secretary of Education. In 2019, the museum was awarded the medal "Diploma and Medal for Museological Merit" by the Brazilian Regional

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Council. In 2020, the museum joined the

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platform, in which an adapted version of

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was added to the museum's interior.

Collections

The museum has 5,000 works of art including religious sculptures, paintings, ceramics, photographs, documents and

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. The museum contains pieces of

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of Brazilian, Oriental and European origin. The museum includes works of art by brazilian artists José Teófilo de Jesus,

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, Alberto Valença, Mendonça Filho and Presciliano Silva. The museum has a library with 12,000 books as well as

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exhibits. The museum also houses collections of the historian Góis Calmon. Among the museum's collections are 19th century tiles and various antiques. In 2017, the museum organized an exhibition of Judite Pimentel's artwork. The museum also has a collection of statues made of marble.

Gallery

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References

{{Authority control Art museums and galleries in Brazil Museums in Salvador, Bahia 1918 establishments in Brazil