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Imperial Museum of Brazil

The Museu Imperial de Petrópolis is a museum in the historic center of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is housed in the Petrópolis Imperial Palace, the former summer residence of Emperor Pedro II (reigned 1831–1889), which was built starting in 1845.

Palácio Imperial de Petrópolis

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Petrópolis

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22°30′29.3″S 43°10′30.8″W / 22.508139°S 43.175222°W / -22.508139; -43.175222

Imperial Museum of Brazil

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Pedro II

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Julius Friedrich Koeler

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1938

The museum includes the palace itself, pieces of the monarchical past of Brazil, and a temporary exhibition hall dedicated to contemporary art. It is one of the most-visited museums – and was voted the best museum – in the country.

Dining Room, with rich set of furniture signed by F. Léger Jeanselme Père & Fils, and crockery.

Music Hall, preserving instruments such as a golden harp made by Pleyel Wolff, an eighteenth-century psalter made in and the Broadwood English-made pianoforte, which would, according to tradition, belong to Emperor Pedro I, and the manufactured spinet by Mathias Bosten in 1788, the only one existing in the world of this author. Complete the furniture room tiled in rosewood.

Rio de Janeiro

State Hall, the most important of the palace, where Dom Pedro received official visitors. The throne, originally in the Palace of Quinta da Boa Vista, came only later to the Imperial Museum, along with objects of adornment such as vases, porcelains of Sèvres, consoles and decorated mirrors.

Emperor Pedro II's Office, where the Emperor spent most of the day amidst scientific instruments and books. There he preserves, among other objects, his lunette, the first telephone of Brazil, which he brought from the , his chaise longue and several painted portraits of his family.

United States

Preserves of the Princesses, preserving the original environments occupied by the Princess Isabel and , with furniture in the style of the King Joseph I of Portugal.

Princess Leopoldina

Living room of the Empress, where Teresa Cristina received her friends privately, for conversations and embroidery sessions, with corresponding furniture.

(in Portuguese)

Official website

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Virtual tour of the Imperial Museum of Brazil

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