Chacara do Ceu Museum
About the company:
The Chacara do Ceu Museum is one of two Castro Maya museums that preserves and displays a wide variety of art objects.
The museum was founded in the early 20th century by Brazilian industrialist Raimundo de Castro Maya. The Chacara do Ceu Museum is built on a mountain and offers a magnificent view of Rio de Janeiro.
The collection of the museum contains paintings, drawings and engravings by the Brazilian artist Candido Portinari, as well as works by Di Cavalcanti, Matisse, Sera, Modigliani, more than 500 works by Jean Baptiste Debret, books by travelers and naturalists of the nineteenth century.