VIRTUAL GALLERY
You can know more about the Museum's collections!

CARTOONS BY RIAN PAINTINGS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY

The Virtual Gallery presents cartoons by Nair de Teffé (1886-1981), whose artistic name was Rian. She became famous and notorious in the early 20th century, especially from 1909 on, when she married the then President of the Republic, Marshall Hermes da Fonseca, in 1913. Her skecthes reveal a remarkable artist, a pioneer cartunist whose independent personality broke with the taboos of the epoch.
This exhibition of the collection of the National Historical Museum, presents an iconography of the royal and Brazilian imperial family. Texts and photos (Rômulo Fialdini), taken from the book "Museu Histórico Nacional", edited by Banco Safra.
PERSONAL OBJECTS COMMUNICATION

The National Historial Museum has interesting objects of personal use, such as protection and hygiene of the body, adornment, habits and beliefs. Among the items, toilet and travelling items. Know more about this collection in the Virtual Gallery, with texts and photos by Rômulo Fialdini, taken from the book "National Historical Museum", edited by Banco Safra.
Equipments used for transmitting written, sound or visual information are also part of the collection of the National Historical Museum. Modern cellular phones already integrate the collection. In this exhibition, however, we selected curious objects that gives us a general ideal of how communication was processed in the mid 20th century. In the late 19th century and mid 20th century, the telephone and the radio became important vehicles of communication. It is also interesting to know about commercial and political propagand in its early beginning.
Rio de Janeiro by Juan Gutierrez  

The Historic Archive preserves an important collection of 195 photos of Juan Gutierrez, a Spanish photographer that acted in Rio de Janeiro by the end of the 19th century. Among others, he documented the "Revolta da Armada" (1893/94), depicting the fortifications, the soldiers and the weapons that were being used, however never presenting scenes of combat. His lens captured, also, views of several quarters of the old city of Rio, reproducing its architecture and daily life. These are the photos that we reproduce now in our Virtual Gallery.
 
INTERIORS TIME NEVER STOPS

With the purpose of offering the opportunity of knowing the Museum's vast collection, the Virtual Gallery was created; new items will be always added, and tridimensional objects, numismatic, archival or bibliographical ones will be selected according to categories, materials or items.
The National Historical Museum commemorates Brazil's 500 years and the change of millenium by presenting the exhibition "Time Never Stops". Clocks and watches of different periods and styles were selected, such as a sundial, winding watches, electronic watches and the vanguard of watches created by graphic designer Hans Donner, author of the watches that marked, in different parts of Brazil, the retrogressive counting for April 22, a date that celebrates the 500 years of the arrival of Pedro Alvares Cabral to the Brazilian coast. The reunion of these instruments is the result of a joint work - that had the participation of a team formed by museologists, architects and designers - so that the yesterday's and the today's technology of these watches, that mark the rhythm of mans' trajectory, may become known to the public.