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Ethnographic Museum of Madeira
Location:
Rua de São Francisco nº 24, 9350-211 Ribeira Brava, Madeira
Phone: (351) 291 952598. Fax.: (351) 291 957313
E-mail: museuetnografico@clix.pt
Opening Hours:
Tuesdays to Sundays from 10 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Closed on Mondays and holidays
Enter Price:
Normal ticket: 2.50 Euros
Group of 6 people: 2 Euros (per person)
Senior citizens and youth card holders: 1 Euro
Sundays: Free
Free every days for duly identified teachers, students, members of APOM, ICOM, other Museum associations, journalists and tourism professionals.
Responsible Body:
Direcção de Serviços de Museus
Direcção Regional dos Assuntos Culturais
Secretaria Regional de Educação e Cultura
Região Autónoma da Madeira
The Museum
The Museum is situated on a property which belonged in the early 17th century to the Santa Clara Convent of Funchal, acquired by Luís Gonçalves da Silva, the Ordinance Captain for Ribeira Brava, who carried out expansion works to the existing construction, having a Chapel built evoking Saint Joseph in 1710.
In 1853 José Maria Barreto, the last administrator of the vinculum of Saint Joseph, proceeded to the conversion of the manor house into an industrial unit, forming a company with Jorge de Oliveira. An animal-driven device was then assembled for grinding sugar cane and a still for distilling brandy. In 1862 the device began using hydraulic power, with a wooden driving wheel having been installed, served by a water course, and a device for grinding cane with three horizontal iron rollers. In 1868 there were also two cereal mills in operation at the aforementioned factory.
After its deactivation, the property was acquired by the General Council of the Funchal Autonomous District in 1974.
After some work to rehabilitate and transform the former Manor and Sugar-Mill, the Museu Etnográfico da Madeira was installed there by decision of the Regional Government, having been inaugurated in 1996.
The vocation of the Museum is research, documentation, conservation and dissemination of the testimonies of traditional Madeiran culture.
The Museum collection includes collections which encompass various social, economic and cultural aspects of the archipelago of Madeira, with ethnography being its field of vocation.
The permanent exhibition area has been organised by themes: production activities (fishing, wine, cereal and linen production cycles), transport, household units (kitchen and bedroom) and traditional trade (grocer's).
The main nuclei of the collection to be found are: equipment used at home, agricultural implements, crafts, cyclical festivities, musical instruments, entertainment activities, costumes, coupling systems, ceramic technology, clay figures and textile technology.
Services:
Education
The Museum has educational services with their own technicians supporting the relationship with the various publics, children, young people, senior citizens and the handicapped.
Store
At the Museum Store there is the sale and distribution of informative material about the Museum such as guide books and postcards. It also sells traditional craftwork from Madeira.
The Museum is situated on a property which belonged in the early 17th century to the Santa Clara Convent of Funchal, acquired by Luís Gonçalves da Silva, the Ordinance Captain for Ribeira Brava, who carried out expansion works to the existing construction, having a Chapel built evoking Saint Joseph in 1710.
In 1853 José Maria Barreto, the last administrator of the vinculum of Saint Joseph, proceeded to the conversion of the manor house into an industrial unit, forming a company with Jorge de Oliveira. An animal-driven device was then assembled for grinding sugar cane and a still for distilling brandy. In 1862 the device began using hydraulic power, with a wooden driving wheel having been installed, served by a water course, and a device for grinding cane with three horizontal iron rollers. In 1868 there were also two cereal mills in operation at the aforementioned factory.
After its deactivation, the property was acquired by the General Council of the Funchal Autonomous District in 1974.
After some work to rehabilitate and transform the former Manor and Sugar-Mill, the Museu Etnográfico da Madeira was installed there by decision of the Regional Government, having been inaugurated in 1996.
The vocation of the Museum is research, documentation, conservation and dissemination of the testimonies of traditional Madeiran culture.
The Museum collection includes collections which encompass various social, economic and cultural aspects of the archipelago of Madeira, with ethnography being its field of vocation.
The permanent exhibition area has been organised by themes: production activities (fishing, wine, cereal and linen production cycles), transport, household units (kitchen and bedroom) and traditional trade (grocer's).
The main nuclei of the collection to be found are: equipment used at home, agricultural implements, crafts, cyclical festivities, musical instruments, entertainment activities, costumes, coupling systems, ceramic technology, clay figures and textile technology.
Services:
Education
The Museum has educational services with their own technicians supporting the relationship with the various publics, children, young people, senior citizens and the handicapped.
Store
At the Museum Store there is the sale and distribution of informative material about the Museum such as guide books and postcards. It also sells traditional craftwork from Madeira.
Ox-driven cart
Used to transport people.
Welt wheels (driving wheels) of the mill
Permanent Exhibition of Cereal Cycle: “A grain whisked away by the current”
Lagar de Fuso (Sprindle Press)
Permanent exhibition of Wine Cycle
Lagar de Côcho (Press)
Permanent exhibition of Wine Cycle
