Museum sights in Cachoeira & São Félix
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Museu da Boa Morte
For a small donation, members of the exclusively female Boa Morte (Good Death) religious society will lead you around their barren one-room Museu da Boa Morte. There are some good photos here and usually society members sit around in their whites, smoking pipes and trading gossip. The society began as a sisterhood of slaves that assured dead slaves a proper burial and bought old slaves their freedom, while on the side they passed on information regarding slave uprisings and carefully disguised Candomblé events.
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Igreja Matriz NS do Rosário
The Igreja Matriz NS do Rosário dates between 1693 and 1754. It has beautiful azulejos and a ceiling painted by Teófilo de Jesus. On the 2nd floor, the Museu das Alfaias contains remnants from the abandoned 17th-century Convento de São Francisco do Paraguaçu. The church is usually open mornings, but try knocking if it’s closed.
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Museu IPHAN
Housed in an 18th-century colonial mansion, the humble Museu IPHAN displays colonial furnishings and priestly vestments.
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