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Libraries

State Library System of Paraná (Sistema Estadual de Bibliotecas do Paraná)
Rua Cândido Lopes, nº 133 Centro
Curitiba PR 80020-901
Telephone: 55 41 3221-4951/3221-4986/9957-9841
Email: rogeriopereira@bpp.pr.gov.br
Email #2: bppgeral@bpp.pr.gov.br
Email #3: vilmanascimento@bpp.pr.gov.br
Website: State Library System of Paraná
Website #2: State Public Library System
Website #3: Biblioteca Pública do Paraná

Central Library Federal University of Paraná (Biblioteca Central Universidade Federal do Paraná)
Rua General Carneiro, 370 / 380 – Centro
Curitiba PR 81531-990
Telephone: 55 41 3360-5288/5000
Email: bc@ufpr.br
Website: Libraries Federal University of Paraná

For a Guide to the Municipal Public Libraries of Paraná, go to Guide to Municipal Public Libraries of Paraná.

For a long list of libraries in the State of Paraná, go to Libraries in the State of Paraná.

Museums

Carambeí Historic Park (Parque Histórico de Carambeí)
Av. dos Pioneiros, 4050 - Zona Rural
Carambeí PR 84145-000
Telephone: 55 42 3231-5063
Email: museu@aphc.com.br
Website: Carambeí Historic Park
Website #2: Carambei Historical Park
Website #3: Carambeí Historical Park
Website #4: Carambeí Historical Park

Installed on a 100 thousand square meter plot, with integrated museum wings and outdoors, which contemplate themes such as: Landscape Goods, History of Private Life, Sociability and Cooperativism portray the culture and history of Dutch Immigration and also its relations with different ethnic groups who settled here and together occupied the territory today constituted as the municipality of Carambeí.

Holocaust Museum (Museu do Holocausto)
Rua Coronel Agostinho Macedo, 248 - Bom Retiro
Curitiba PR 80520-100
Telephone: 55 41 3093-7461
Email: contato@museudoholocausto.org.br
Website: Holocaust Museum
Website #2: Holocaust Museum
Website #3: Museu do Holocausto de Curitiba

Officially inaugurated in November 2011, the Holocaust Museum has an educational vocation and a well-defined pedagogical line, by showing the events of the War through stories of victims who have a connection with Brazil or Paraná.

Paranaense Museum (Museu Paranaense)
Rua Kellers, 289 - Alto São Francisco
Curitiba PR 80410-100
Telephone: 55 41 3304-3300
Email: Museupr@seec.pr.gov.br
Website: museu paranaense
Website #2: Paranaense Museum
Website #3: Paranaense Museum
Website #4: Paranaense Museum
Website #5: Paranaense Museum<br< Website #6: Paranaense Museum - MUPA
Website #7: Museu Paranaense

Visitors can contemplate a collection of approximately 400 thousand items that portray and rescue the history of Paraná . Highlight for objects of personal use, furniture, weapons, uniforms, clothing, documents, maps, photos, films, discs, machines, equipment of various kinds, coins, medals, porcelain, paintings in various techniques and sculptures, in addition to a large archaeological collection , anthropological, and oil portraits.

Paranaguá Historical Geographic Institute (Instituto Histórico Geográfico de Paranaguá)
Rua Quinze de Novembro, 603 - Centro Histórico
Paranaguá PR 83203-010
Telephone: 55 41 3423-2892
Website: Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Paranaguá - IHGP
Website #2: Paranaguá Historical and Geographic Institute
Website #3: Museum of the Historical and Geographic Institute of Paranaguá - Pr

It was founded on September 26, 1931, with the main objective of preserving the history of Paranaguá, making it useful with regard to education and culture. It also aims to study, investigate, cultivate history, geography, folklore, the traditions of the coast of Paraná and promote cultural exchange with similar national and foreign institutions.

Paranavaí Historical Museum (Museu Histórico de Paranavaí)
Rua Professor Emílio Miljutin Cogey 116, Annex to the Casa da Cultura, Centro
Paranavaí PR 87708-090
Telephone: 55 44 3422-5018/3902-1049
Email: naoinformado@naoinformado.br
Website: Paranavaí Historical, Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum
Website #2: Paranavaí Historical, Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum
Website #3: Paranavaí Museum

The Museum's collection already has about 600 pieces, including photos, works of art, everyday objects of the pioneers, documents and others. Its space is divided between the Permanent Exhibition divided into several phases, and the Temporary Exhibition. The Museum's team develops various educational activities, including the Literarte Workshop, which receives children and adolescents twice a week at the museum to experience activities that bring together history and art.

Ukrainian Memorial (Memorial Ucraniano)
Rua Dr. Mbá de Ferrante, s / n - Parque Tingui
Curitiba PR 81020-430
Telephone: 55 41 3240-1103/3321-3247
Email: memoriais@fcc.curitiba.pr.gov.br
Website: Ukrainian Memorial
Website #2: Ukrainian Memorial
Website #3: Memorial Ucraniano De Curitiba

In addition to the wide green area of Parque Tingüi, the visitor finds, right at the entrance, with the portal and, further on, the replica of the old chapel of São Miguel, Serra do Tigre, municipality of Mallet-Pr, with its golden dome , built in wood, in Byzantine style, where there is a permanent exhibition of pêssankas (hand-painted eggs), icons and embroidery. Next to the chapel is the belfry, which symbolizes the integration into the new land and the importance of religion as a maintainer of cultural unity. In a typical Ukrainian architecture house, there is a souvenir shop, where handmade products are sold. The Memorial has a stage and a giant peach, made by the artist Jorge Seratiuk. Folkloric demonstrations and typical ethnic festivals take place with the support of the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba and the Ukrainian community:

For a list of museums in Brazil go to List of museums in Brazil in Wikipedia.