Museu do Ouro (The Gold Museum)

Created in April 1945, the Museu do Ouro (The Gold Museum) is located in the old building of the Casa da Real Intendência e Fundição do Ouro de Sabará (House of the Royal Director and Gold Foundry of Sabará), an institution of the portuguese administration responsible for the coining and taxation of all the extracted gold. It holds a collection mainly made of objects from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and its mission is to preserve and disseminate the history of mining activity in Minas Gerais during the monarchy period. Walking through the exhibition, visitors can see instruments used for the extraction and smelting of gold as well as artistic and cultural expressions of society of that time.  

• architecture
• popular art
• religious art
• history
• painting
• sculpture
• technology