Located in the Azambuja Valley, it is considered the most comprehensive popular sacred art museum in Brazil. It is located in a building constructed in 1907, where the visitors can enter completely furnished sacristies with authentic popular objects like images and rustic crucifixes which have been carved by uneducated agriculture workers, altars, ways of the cross, candle holders, lamps, litters used in religious processions, books (such as a Bible printed in 1578, a missal from 1751 and a breviary from 1758), clothing, confessionary booths, images, oratories, zoology, mineralogy and botanical items (like a fossilized 210 million-year pine tree), ethnology and archeology (all about the indians).

Instruments and musical notations, general history of Brusque and Azambuja, weaponry, replicas of furniture and domestic utensils used by the immigrants, samples of the female domestic industry and the male textile industry and a showcase of the textile evolution in Brusque. Besides a clock presented to Brusque by Brazilian Emperor D. Pedro II.

Rua Azambuja, 1076 - Telephone +55 47 3396-6276
Business hours: Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday through Monday: from 1:30 p.m. through 5 p.m.

Translation: Maria Cecília Pastorelli.
Pictures: Lysandro Lima.
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