Castro Maya Museum
About the company:
The Castro Maya Museum is a historical landmark of Rio de Janeiro.
The founder of the museum is Raimundo de Castro Maya. Now the building of the museum is subordinated to the Brazilian Institute of Museums and is the legacy of the Castro Maya Foundation. This fund was established in 1963.
The Castro Maya Museum has a diverse collection of 22,000 items. Some of them were acquired by Castro Maya, and some were inherited from his father. The collections include a large collection of Brazilian art from the sixteenth century, European art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and works of Oriental art.