Casa do Pontal
The largest folk art museum in Brazil is located on a quiet estate in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, set between Prainha beach and the Serra do Mar coastal range. Featuring over 5,000 pieces in a wide variety of styles, shapes, materials and sizes, this unique collection has been built up over the past fifty years by French collector Jacques van de Beuque. It also has a database for students and visitors eager for additional information.
One of the most charming and vital places in Rio de Janeiro city is the Casa do Pontal. It is located in Estrada do Pontal (Pontal road), no 3.295, near to Guaratiba, and shelters a very fantastic collection of more than 4.000 pieces of Brazilian popular art.
Casa do Pontal is a private organism, without profits, settled and maintained by Jacques Van De Beuque, a sympathetic French man who moved to Brazil in 1946 and, passionately found of this country and, particularly by its popular art, started his wonderful collection and gave it to us.
Another strong point of the collection of Casa do Pontal is the organization of the pieces, distributed by sections which takes the visitant to go through the galleries in a logical and coherent order. The pA?ieces have been gathered in themes which represent the man and his activities, the cycle of the life, commemorations and leisure, the uncommon art, the religiosity and the big popular celebration which is the carnival.
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