Created in august 1922, by decree of President Epitácio Pessoa the National
Museum of History starts its activities in october, integrating the the
Centennial Exhibition, in two special rooms of the "Casa do Trem"
(Ammunition Depot).
Along these 75 years of continuous activities, the Museum assembled the
largest collection under the guard of the Ministry of Culture and has
become an important center of culture, occupying gradually all the
architectural complex of the Calaboose Point, where the Santiago Fort was
once situated.
The first one to run an official museology course that served as a starting
point for the formation of other important brazilian museums, the Museum of
History became internationally known in the decade of the 40's.
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