The Museum of Indigenous People
This museum is meant to preserve and show the culture of the indigenous population of Brazil. The museum was also created to educate people about the Brazilian indigenous people and the challenges they went through, as well as correct any misunderstadning people have of them.
About 240 indigenous tribes live in Brazil. It’s estimated that around 240 indigenous tribes live in Brazil. That is 0.4% of the total population in Brazil, which is 900,000 people. The indigenous people have held true to their culture even with the exposure of other traditions, customs, and languages.
The spiral-shaped architecture resembles a maloca, which is a house used by the Yanomami tribe in Brazil. The inside of the museum is full of thousands of photos, videos, films, documents, jewelry, clothes, musical instruments, masks, and paintings about and from the various tribes in Brazil.
