Museu da Boa Morte
Museu da Boa Morte
- Address
- Rua 13 de Maio Cachoeira
- Price
- admission by donation
- Hours
- 10am-6pm
Lonely Planet review for 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.
