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Museu Amazônico
Housed in a converted mansion a short walk from the center, the Museu Amazônico has a small but excellent collection of indigenous items and artifacts from around the Amazon. Highlights include Xingu feather headdresses; Yanomami weapons, and terrific masks and costumes used in Kobewa and Ticuna rituals.
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Museu de Ciências Naturais da Amazônia
Known by many locals as the Museu Japonesa (Japanese Museum: it's run by Japanese-Brazilians and located in a largely Japanese-Brazilian area), the Amazon Natural Sciences Museum has an extensive exhibit of stuffed fish, preserved butterflies and some unnervingly large beetles and spiders from the region; descriptions are in English, Portuguese and Japanese. An aquarium contains live Amazon fish, including the impressive 2m-long pirarucú .
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Museu do Homem do Norte
The Museu do Homem do Norte (Museum of Northern Man) is an ethnology and anthropology museum dedicated to the lifestyle of the people of northern Brazil. There's a particular focus on the riverbank-dwelling Caboclos (literally 'copper-coloured') people, the mixed descendents of indigenous people and Portuguese.
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Museu do Índio
Sandwiched between two churches and run by Salesian nuns, the Museu do Índio displays artwork, musical instruments, fishing and hunting tools, and ritual objects of indigenous groups from mostly Amazonas and Pará states. The collection is large and quite good, but the displays are artless and the explanations seriously lacking.
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Museu do Seringal Vila Paraíso
The Museu do Seringal Vila Paraíso is a 25-minute boat ride from Ponta Negra, which is itself a 20-minute bus ride from the center. Fortunately, the trip there is part of the fun, and can be combined with a stop at Praia da Lua, Manaus's best beach. Guided tours include an opulent rubber baron's townhouse and a replica rubber tapper shack, and walking a short trail to see how rubber trees are tapped, and the latex processed in a thatch smoke house.
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