Maracanã Stadium
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
Once the world's highest capacity football venue, it was able to hold nearly 200,000 people. In modern times, the capacity has been reduced because of safety considerations, and the introduction of se...
Museu Aeroespacial
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
Museu Aeroespacial is a national aviation museum located 25km west of Rio de Janeiro. The museum is part of the University of the Air Force's campus (UNIFA), being administratively sobordinate to the ...
Museu Carmen Miranda
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
This museum is all about this Brazilian actress and singer (the lady with pineapples-and-bananas hat), the national icon in the 1940s and 50s (in Flamengo), Car...
Museu Casa do Pontal
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
This is the largest and the most important museum of folk art in Brazil, with collection including over 8,000 sculptures and models made by 200 folk artists fro...
Museu Chácara do Céu
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
An important collection of South American modern art (in Santa Tereza). It is one of the two Castro Maya Museums, which showcases around 22,000 items collected ...
Museu da Imagem e do Som
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
For researchers about Brazilian film, radio, and broadcasting industry (downtown). The vertical ribbon-like scheme recalls the design from a decade ago for the ...
Museu da República
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
Hosted on the former presidential palace, this museum hosts permanent exhibitions about recent Brazilian history (from 1889 on); one of main features is the room where president Getúlio Va...
Museu de Arte do Rio
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
Recently completed museum as part of the regeneration of the old port area. Made up of a newly constructed building with good views from the roof, next to a con...
Museu de Arte Moderna
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
The second most important contemporary art museum in Brazil, after MASP (downtown, next to Santos Dumont airport). Modernist architecture spreading over almost ...
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
Being a federal public institution, this museum is dedicated to the study and dissemination of the history of science and technology in the country. MAST is a r...
Museu de Ciências da Terra
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
This majestic building has gone through many incarnations before it housed the Earth Science Museum. The four-room exhibit provides a glimpse of the natural his...
Museu do Açude
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- City: Rio de Janeiro
The former residence of one of the founders of the Modern Art Museum, this museum hosts a collection of items from the history of Portuguese rule, including furniture, kitchenware, and an array of az...