Villa Lobos Museum
Rua Sorocaba 200, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
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The Villa Lobos Museum is a popular museum in Rio de Janeiro dedicated to the life and work of the famous Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos. The museum attracts fans of his talent not only from Brazil itself, but also from all over the world.
The Villa Lobos Museum opened in 1961, just two years after the composer’s death. The first director of this institution was the second wife of Villa Lobos, who led the museum for more than 20 years and added a huge number of exhibits to the collection.
The exposition of the museum is extremely rich - here you can see many objects and documents, on which it is easy to trace the life and creative path of the composer. These are primarily various letters, books, notebooks, drafts, records, films, films and photographs. For any admirer of Heitor Villa Lobos, this museum is a real mecca that must be visited without fail.