Formerly a telephone museum, Oi Futuro now hosts a fine gallery with temporary exhibitions of digital art or art with interactive media
The Carmen Miranda Museum showcases a collection of photographs, posters, musical recordings, and, of course, gigantic fruity hats worn by the singing star
Santa Teresa is a hill-side neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, known for its winding, narrow alleys lined with 19th – 20th century mansions of the wealthy
The Museum of Naïve Art in Rio de Janeiro is the largest museum of its type in the world, with over 8000 pieces, representative of over 130 countries, with many pieces for sale
Catete Palace, the former presidential palace (1894-1960), now hosts the Republic Museum which explores Brazil’s fight for independence from Portugal
The small Tram Museum has photos of and artifacts from the glory days when trams were all over Rio, including some models of old tramcars and lots of electrical equipment
The Largo do Boticário (Apothecary's Square) is a delightful square in the Cosme Velho neighborhood with preserved colonial style houses that date back to 1831
The Modernist mansion of industrialist and art collector Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya showcases his trove of modern art, with works by Portinari, Di Cavalcanti and Lygia Clark
Museu Villa-Lobos is dedicated to the great Brazilian composer and founder of the Brazilian Academy of Music, Heitor Villa-Lobos, who wrote about 1000 pieces
Museu do Índio explores the history and society of Native Brazilians, with 14,000 artifacts, 50,000 photographs and 200 audio-visual recordings