Museu Do Açude

Alto da Boa Vista property was acquired by the Castro Maya family in 1913 and renovated in the 1920s.

It is located in the middle of the Forest of Tijuca, in an area of 151,132m², which comprises four buildings. The Museu do Açude was created in 1964, and from the 1990s it adopts the perspective of integral patrimony, combining cultural and natural heritage.

MUSEOLOGICAL SPACE Reception Pavilion: reception to the visitor, shop and exhibition Portraits of Raymundo, whose objective is to present the main facets of Castro Maya life: private life, the collector, the ecologist, the host, the businessman and the sportsman.

Main House: on the first floor is the collection of oriental art and the reconstitution of the Kitchen and the Dining Room, as they were arranged in the past, in order to allude to the memorial dimension of the space and to propose the dialogue between the museum-house and the house which became a museum. On the second floor is the Technical Reserve of the museum, which can also be visited.

Rugendas Gallery: formerly the stables of the old residence, housed until the 1990s the Rugendas collection, which was transferred to the Chácara do Céu Museum in Santa Teresa. The gallery hosts today the exhibition Castro Maya and the Nature of Rio, which portrays the involvement of Castro Maya as a collector of images about the natural landscape of Rio de Janeiro and his management as administrator of the National Park of Tijuca between 1943 and 1946.

Debret Gallery: formerly a space dedicated to presenting the works of the French artist Jean-Baptiste Debret, transferred in the 1990s to the Museum of the Chácara do Céu. Today presents the exhibition of lithographs used as in the stamping of the products of the food industries of Castro Maya. All of them are part of the collection of the 478 lithographic stones belonging to the Castro Maya Museums, originating from the Colmenar Estamparia, acquired by Raymundo in 1956.

Permanent Installations Space: set up in 1999, it is an outdoor circuit with the works of contemporary artists Anna Maria Maiolino, Eduardo Coimbra, Helio Oiticica, Iole de Freitas, Lygia Pape, Nuno Ramos and Piotr Uklanski, curated by Marcio Doctors.