Mankind's Cultural Heritage in Brazil

The Train Museum is declared a national historic landmark and important monuments are restored in Rio de Janeiro

The Train Museum in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, was recently declared a national historic heritage in early May by the National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN), the Brazilian formal office that looks after the various historical, cultural and urban heritages of Brazil.

Located in the district of Engenho de Dentro in Rio de Janeiro, the museum has over one thousand items of historical value, including railway equipment, furniture and locomotives. Additionally, The Train Museum has the first locomotive to run on the railway of Petrópolis (a mountain city of the state of Rio de Janeiro) which was built in England, and a train car used by the former president of Brazil, Getúlio Vargas, and another train car in which King Alberto, from Belgium, travelled on during his official visit to Brazil in 1922.

This month, the Santa Luzia Church and the Bonfim Chapel in Angra dos Reis (city on the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro) have been renovated and restored via IPHAN. Nearly 392 thousand reais have been dedicated to the restorations. The Santa Luzia Church started being built in 1630, while the Bonfim Chapel started being built in the 1780’s. Both were recognized as Brazilian Cultural Heritage in 1954, in processes that have declared them to also be national historic landmarks.

Source: IPHAN (HTTP://portal.iphan.gov.br).