Museums

Ethnographic Museum of Praia

Informações Úteis:

Schedule

3ª a 6ª feira: das 9:00 às 17:00 | Sábado: das 9:00 às 13:00 | Encerra aos domingos e feriados

Ticket Office

100$00 para nacionais e 200$00 para estrangeiros | Isenções: crianças até 12 anos, estudantes e idosos | Entrada livre: 18 de abril, 18 de maio e 18 de outubro

Contact for booking

(00238) 2623385 / email: nospatrimonio@gmail.com

Location

Rua 5 de Julho, nº 45 – CP nº 76, Plateau, Cidade da Praia, Ilha de Santiago

Guardianship

Cultural Heritage Institute

Directorate of Museums

Aleida Aguiar

Technical coordination

Aleida Aguiar Monteiro

Partilhar

Ethnographic Museum of Praia

The Ethnographic Museum of Praia emerged from the genesis of a larger project of establishing of the National Museum (late 1980/1990). The purpose was to create a museum that could reflect the Cabo Verdean cultural identity. However, it was not possible to materialize it, having resulted in what is now the Ethnographic Museum of Praia, which opened on November 27, 1997.

Most of the objects that constitute the collection of the Ethnographic Museum of Praia are the result of collecting campaigns carried out in the years 1992 to 1995 on the islands of Santiago, Santo Antão, Boa vista and Brava by the National Institute of Culture (INAC). This quite diversified collection represents the life, the daily life and the know-how of the capeverdean man, his ancestral techniques and crafts, many of them in extinction, which are part of the ethno-cultural ballast common to all the islands of the archipelago. In other words, its collection allows the visitor to remember/ travel back in time, to get to know/discover and imagine the daily life of Cabo Verdean men and women, especially in rural areas, getting to know their creativity in the way they adapted to the environment and the raw materials available to them by creating utilitarian objects.

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