Try not to spend hours watching the artists manipulating their puppets. Try not to be enchanted by the expressions of the children watching you. Try not to go back to being a child yourself.
If you are going to follow our wonderful tip to visit the redefined Museum of the Republic, in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Don’t forget to also check out the cuteness, fun, power and importance of the Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum, from the National Center for Folklore and Popular Culture (CNFCP). Entry is free.
The exhibition is enchanting, literally. Try not to spend hours watching the artists manipulating their puppets. Try not to be enchanted by the expressions of the children watching you. Try not to go back to being a child yourself. Try, but you won’t succeed.
The Museum awakens in those who visit a sweetness that hard life takes away from us, it brings back the fun, it rescues the simplicity of fun, the luminosity of a smile. All this valuing and spreading the richness of folklore in strings, photographs, woodcuts and videos forming a journey to the Brazilian folk center.
“From the arts in disposable materials by Willi de Carvalho from Minas Gerais to the clay figures by Carmélia from Pernambuco; from the Zé Caboclo family to the painting by Ermelinda from Ceará: all are on display and for sale in the sales space of the Sala do Artista Popular (SAP). Come visit and, who knows, be inspired and take something to celebrate this month too!”, invites the Museum.
On display in the Popular Artist Room, there is also the exhibition “Tkai wamsrē, wanõrtê dasiwawē: clay, our ancestral relative”, until July 28th.
Edison Carneiro Folklore Museum: Rua do Catete, 179, Catete – Rio de Janeiro
Telephone: (21) 3032.6052
Opening hours: Monday: closed. Tuesday to Friday, from 10am to 6pm. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 11am to 5pm.
By Ezatamentchy
Source: Maxima
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