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393: 330: 346: 314: 275: 377: 290:", was designed by José Coelho da Gama e Abreu and built in the second half of the 19th century to house the Municipal Stewardship, thus integrating a select group of 1800's Brazilian buildings that still maintain their original public functions. It is located in Cidade Velha neighborhood, the historic center of the capital of Pará, between Felipe Patroni and D. Pedro II squares. Its construction began in 1860 and was completed in 1885. It predominantly follows the late neoclassical style, also known in Brazil as "Empire style". In addition to the City Hall, it has already housed the Court of Appeals, the Board of Trade, the 409: 362: 242:
in the capital. In 1986, the Belém City Museum was created, again through the City Hall's initiative, from the collection of the Municipal Pinacoteca. Three years later, the Cultural Foundation of the Municipality of Belém (FUMBEL) was established, the agency responsible for the promotion, dissemination of art and also for the maintenance of the historical, artistic and cultural heritage of the city. The foundation then starts to manage the municipality's two museum spaces.
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Lemos Palace, the City Hall's headquarters, the new museum was transferred to this building, where it is located until today. On the occasion of its reinauguration, its catalogue was expanded with collections from the Municipal Pinacoteca and the City Museum. The museum is responsible for managing two other museum spaces in the city of Belém: the Municipal Art Gallery and the Museum of Popular Art, located in the district of Icoaraci.
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The Belém Museum of Art is housed in the Antônio Lemos Palace, which is also home to the municipal government's headquarters. The museum occupies seven exhibition rooms on the upper floor and two rooms on the first floor of the building, totaling 1,500 square meters. It is equipped with a restoration
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It is in this context that the Belém Municipal Pinacoteca was created in 1983, with the function of cataloging, preserving, and disseminating the art collection belonging to the municipal government, composed of works acquired since the early 20th century, on the occasion of academic exhibitions held
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In 1991, still as a result of this process of organization and consolidation of the municipality's cultural equipment network, the Belém Museum of Art is created during the administration of Manoel Augusto da Costa Rezende, as a department of FUMBEL. In 1994, after the renovation work in Antônio
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The Belém Museum of Art has a collection of more than 1,500 works, including paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, photographs and decorative objects produced in Brazil and Europe between the 18th and 20th centuries. The segments referring to works produced in the context of the
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The Belém Museum of Art aims to preserve, restore, expand, research and publicize its heritage and foster various forms of artistic manifestations, as well as provide services to the student community, mainly in the field of
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From the 1970s decade on, thanks to the expansion of modern means of communication and the breaking of physical isolation from other regions of the Brazilian territory through the construction of the
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building erected in the second half of the 19th century to be the headquarters of the Municipal Government, listed as heritage by the public authorities at the federal, state, and municipal levels.
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association (CiVViva), aiming to develop activities to enhance the cultural heritage and stimulate artistic production with
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In the collection of paintings, a set of eleven canvases depicting urban landscapes of Belém executed by
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Paisagens de Belém: história, natureza e pintura na obra de Antônio Parreiras, 1895–1909
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Paisagens de Belém: história, natureza e pintura na obra de Antônio Parreiras, 1895–1909
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The collection, of over 1,500 artworks, is composed of paintings, sculptures, drawings,
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A arte do fazer: o artista Ruy Meira e as artes plásticas no Pará dos anos 1940 a 1980
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A arte do fazer: o artista Ruy Meira e as artes plásticas no Pará dos anos 1940 a 1980
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Lourenço, Maria Cecília França; USP, Comissão de Patrimônio Cultural (2000).
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laboratory, technical reserve, auditorium, cinema room, and library.
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IPHAN website – Listed Monuments and Public Spaces – Belém (PA)
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National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN)
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and the National Salons of Fine Arts organized by the
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Belém, Pará
Coordinates
1°27′21″S 48°30′8″W / 1.45583°S 48.50222°W / -1.45583; -48.50222
mabe.belem.pa.gov.br
Belém
Pará
Antônio Lemos Palace
neoclassical style
engravings
applied arts
porcelain
Museum of Popular Art
Icoaraci
Belém-Brasília highway
Rio-São Paulo axis
São Paulo Art Biennial Foundation
National Arts Foundation
art-education
underprivileged

municipal Council
Chamber of Deputies
IPHAN
Antônio Parreiras. The Cathedral of Belém, 1905.
Antônio Parreiras. Largo da Pólvora Sidewalk, 1905.
Antônio Parreiras. Republic Square, 1905.
Aurélio de Figueiredo. Corcovado.
Benedito Calixto. Garden Retreat I, 1906.
Domenico De Angelis and Giovanni Capranesi. Carlos Gomes Last Days, 1899.

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