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:With 2,000 items, the Museu do Homem do Norte was designed by sociologist-anthropologist Gilberto Freyre and created with the aim of gathering a significant collection that represented and reflected the characteristics and peculiarities of life in the northern region of Brazil. The collection was acquired over time through donations, purchases, assignments and incorporations. The Museum intends to give an insight into the regional cultural breadth, showing the daily working techniques of the Amazonian populations, the means of transportation, housing, food, parties, crafts, religiosity, myths and rites. , as well as an important archaeological collection.

:The Provincial Palace houses five Museums of different languages: Museum of Archeology, Museum of Image and Sound (MISAM), Museum of Numismatics of Amazonas, Tiradentes Museum and the Pinacoteca do Estado.  The Pinacoteca has paintings, photos and prints by local artists. The Numismatics Museum has a collection of 8 thousand coins. Image and Sound has DVDs and CDs for free on-site viewing. The Tiradentes Museum honors firefighters and state police with guns and uniforms on display. Archeology reproduces excavations and artifacts discovered in the region.

:A pleasant journey into the history of the rubber cycle, the main economic activity of the Amazon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is what you can have with a visit to the Vila Paraíso Seringal Museum in Manaus.  The museum reproduces a rubber plantation from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the era of the rubber cycle. and period of great economic rise of the Amazon. In the visits, which are guided, it is possible to know from the process of production of rubbers hair to the latent difference between the rubber tapper's way of life, which lived in conditions analogous to slavery, and the rubber tapper, the owner of the rubber tapper. It boasted a life of luxury and comfort, even within the forest.