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The "almost cultural":
Sunday's Hippi Market in Leblon - varied collection of Brazilian handicrafts and art works
Carmen Miranda Museum with eclectic collection of memorabilia and paraphanelia

For the real cultural stuff:

Selected museums and cultural places of interest, taken from RIOTUR's "Rio. Incomparable. Museums and Cultural Centers":

MODERN ART MUSEUM (Tue-Sun Noon-6PM)
Created in 1948, the museum holds nearly 4,000 works that belonged to Gilberto Chateaubriand and which were part of the most important collection of modern Brazilian art. The MAM also has 2,000 works by national and foreign artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol and Le Corbusier, among others. It also has a library specialized in arts and cinematheque with an impressive collection of films. Its building, an example of modern architecture, was constructed in apparent concrete, in horizontal lines with an open structure, which allows a continuity to the sea. The gardens designed by Burle Marx integrate the building with the surrounding landscape, highlighting the flower beds full of round pebbles and garden paths with imperial palm trees.

EDISON CARNEIRO'S FOLKLORE MUSEUM (Tue-Fri 11AM-6PM; Sat & Sun 3PM-6PM)
In a 1,500 square meters area, approximately 12,000 pieces are on exhibition, collected from field research, with vast photographic documentation, sound recordings, and records of testimonies, forming sets that illustrate the most diverse aspects of cultural and popular manifestations, with rites, festivals, dances and technologies of crafts production.

CASA DO PONTAL MUSEUM (Daily 9AM-5PM)
The Casa do Pontal is a Brazilian popular art museum with a collection of 3,500 pieces on exposition. It represents works by more than 200 artists form the north to the south of the county, collected in the last fifty years by the museum founder, the French designer Jacques van de Beuque.

CHACARA DO CEU MUSEUM (Wed-Mon Noon-5PM)
Raymundo Ottoni de Castro Maya (1894-1968), a successful businessman, dedicated himself to the cultural life of the city as a patron of the arts, collector, and defender of cultural and natural patrimony. He inherited the Chacara do Ceu in 1936. The present-day construction was designed in 1957 by the modernist architect Wladimir Alves de Souza. The Chacara do Ceu reunited important works from the European culture between the 40's and the 60's. It also has a permanent exposition, a collection o Brasiliana, in addition to an important set of works by Candido Portinari, today considered to the the largest public collection of this artist.

INDIAN MUSEUM (Tue-Fri 10AM-5PM & 1PM-5PM; Sat & Sun 9AM-1PM) (Guided tours with previous reservation)
A beautiful construction of 1880, an architectonic example of the residences at the beginning of the urbanization of the Botafogo neighborhood, it holds one of the most important collections of the indigenous peoples of Latin America. With forty years of tradition as a scientific-cultural organ of the National Indian Foundation, the Museum has 14,000 objects, 550,000 textual documents and 16,000 national and foreign works on indigenous etymology and related areas, 50,000 images, 28 films, 61 videos, 41 records and 48 sound tapes. In the garden of the museum, the Guarani Indians from Bracui constructed a house made of wooden stakes and clay, with thatched cover, sape grass, and straw. They planted a garden around he house with medicinal herbs, corn, manioc, peanuts and beans. All these elements together will give the visitor an idea of how the tribes live in their villages.

NATIONAL FINE ARTS MUSEUM (Tue-Fri 10AM-6PM; Sat & Sun 2PM-6PM)
The National Fine Arts Museum has been installed since its creation in 1937 in he old National School of Fine Arts building.  The building in neoclassical style is one of the trademarks of the opening of Avenida Central, the city's present day Rio Branco. Its galleries hold Brazilian works from the 18th to the 20th century, as well as woks by foreign artists, including paintings, sculptures, and illustrations. The museum also has a collection of popular art that attests to the various regional aspects of the country, a statue collection, African art, furniture and rooms with temporary exhibitions.