Another beautiful museum around Praça da Liberdade. This one has selection of minerals from Brazil…read moreand other countries. The floors are gorgeous. They have a cafe on the main floor and the exhibits are on the second and third floors. They also have local arts and crafts for sale at the museum store.

Gorgeous museum. With history and art of Minas Gerais state…read more It is housed in a historical government building with beautiful architecture that has been preserved, with added modern touches. You can see everything in a couple of hours and make sure to grab a coffee at their café. The admission is free.

Possibly my favorite museum in Brazil! Belo Horizonte has lots of museums to choose from, but this…read moreis truly unique. They have displays on poets with small strips of poetry tucked into branches on a tree to be read. They have an exhibit on Sebastião Salgado, our favorite Brazilian photographer with videos and beautiful prints of his work. They have a section on the haunted house and history of Belo Horizonte. They showed some old time farmer movies displayed in a room decorated in farm furniture. They have a room modeled after a theater and the history of opera culture. We also looked at a historical retelling from 3 different time periods and perspectives, an Amazon indigenous, a slave and a Portuguese. They projected a video on a face cast and it looked 3-dimensional, along with a film that accompanied it. All of these were varied and unique methods of celebrating history in a captivating way. The museum is free with storage lockers for big bags, has clean restrooms, an open air courtyard and a bright cafe in the back. All information has both English and Portuguese handouts which made it easy to follow.

This is really a very cool place. A theatre company founded nearly 50 years ago, specialized in…read moremarionette art. It is both a museum (displaying characters from past shows and those made for TV) and a theatre that has weekly performances. The shows are every Saturday and Sunday at 16:00; they change the performance every month. The one we went to was a very nice puppet + multimedia show. After the show there was a free / included tour of the museum. Fun for young and old.

This old building are quite impressive from an architectural point of view; beautiful crown…read moremolding, marble steps, grand staircase, high ceilings. The building itself it worth a look. It also has a cafe and concert hall on the ground floor. I saw the exhibition for Iberé Camargo, a famous Brazilian painter known for his dark, heavily oil painted figures with a bicycle. I'm sure there was deeper meaning for each iteration of the pictures but held diminutive titles like you are worthless, made it seem little dreary. I wasn't a particular fan of this artist, but his work covered the entire third floor, so quite a collection. There was a curator on staff who was starting conversations with interested patrons. The museum is free and there are rotating exhibits so it's worth returning to.

Great place for kids and adults to take a walk around the square and learn a little bit about our…read morecity.

This natural history museum is just excellent!! It isn't very big but has a good diversity and…read moregood-looking displays. On the ground floor, you'll find mostly dinosaur skeletons including a few big ones! The second floor has a nice butterfly collection, skeletons of some extinct Pleistocene animals (including an impressive giant sloth), and displays on geology and nocturnal animals. The top floor has sea creatures (beautiful shells and a huge whale carcass) as well as a few other odds and ends (a stuffed yak and a gorilla named Idi Amin). Outside there is a lovely garden. During school holidays there are many cool activities for kids. This place is very much worth the (small) entry fee.