Bahia Museum of Art
The Bahia Museum of Art (Portuguese: Museu de Arte da Bahia) is a museum located in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This museum is one of the oldest museums in the State of Bahia. Founded in 1918, it is the oldest museum in Bahia and one of the first ten founded in Brazil.
Bahia Museum of Art
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- Bahia Museum of Art
- Founded
- 1918
- Headquarters
- Palacio da Vitória
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The Bahia Museum of Art (Portuguese: Museu de Arte da Bahia) is a museum located in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This museum is one of the oldest museums in the State of Bahia. Founded in 1918, it is the oldest museum in Bahia and one of the first ten founded in Brazil.
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• Name — Bahia Museum of Art • Location — Salvador, Brazil • Type — Art museum
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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 Museology Council. In 2020, the museum joined the Google Arts & Culture platform, in which an adapted version of Google Street View was added to the museum's interior.
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The museum has 5,000 works of art including religious sculptures, paintings, ceramics, photographs, documents and glass art. The museum contains pieces of decorative arts of Brazilian, Oriental and European origin. The museum includes works of art by Brazilian artists José Teófilo de Jesus, José Joaquim da Rocha, Alberto Valença, Manoel Ignácio de Mendonça Filho and Presciliano Silva. The museum has a library with 12,000 books as well as plastic arts 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.
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- 1.Imbroisi, Margaret. Museu de Arte da Bahia. Historia das Artes. 2016-11-06.
- 2.Conheça o Museu de Arte da Bahia. Leiamaisba. 2013-09-06.
- 3.Salvador: Museu de Arte da Bahia recebe medalha de mérito museológico. Jornal Grande Bahia (JGB). 2019-06-02.
- 4.Loiola, Natália. Museu de Arte da Bahia lança seu acervo digitalmente. Tudo Bahia. 2020-11-20.
- 5.Museu de Arte da Bahia. Conhecendo Museus. 2014-05-26.
- 6.Bahia Art Museum - MAB. Salvador - Bahia.
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- 8.Conheça a História do Museu de Arte da Bahia. Beco das Palavras. 2021-04-15.
- 9.Lorenzi, Gabriel. Museu de Arte da Bahia em Salvador. Dicas do Nosso Brasil. 2018-07-17.
- 10.Museu de Arte da Bahia inaugura exposição inédita de Judite Pimentel. Revista Museu. 2019-11-21.
- 11.Museu de Arte da Bahia Conhecendo Museus TV Brasil Educação. 2014-04-29.
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