01/01/2011
At 40, the Museum Recôncavo Wanderley Pinho, Bahia, is undergoing restoration. The eighteenth-century house will reopen in 2014
Since the eighteenth century, residents and visitors of the Mill Town, the city of Candeias, Bahia, took advantage of the calm sea views of the Bay of All Saints. Also delighted with the four-storey mansion, with 55 rooms, a chapel and library of more than 200 pieces produced since the seventeenth century, including clothing, paintings, decorative objects and furniture. In the last decade, however, only some employees can move around the site. Without undergoing reforms since the 1970s, the building was in danger of collapse. With one month to complete 40 years as headquarters of the Museum Recôncavo Wanderley Pinho, the house is being restored, and should only be reopened in 2014. Money is short, but there are many plans for the future, how to expose pieces of contemporary art in the gardens.
In the place where today stands the house, earlier another machine, looted and burnt by the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Since it was rebuilt the following century, went through periods of rise and decay until it reaches the hands of José Araújo Wanderley de Pinho (1890-1967), heir who conceived the museum. Pine has held various public offices in Congress and defended a bill that eventually led to the creation of the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (Iphan). The court overturned the house, and in February 1971 the museum opened.
"This is one of the few places in the Recôncavo that maintain the original architecture of the mill. But I could not even get to there. It was raining inside the house, the wooden beams were rotten. Sometimes I wonder: Did they really wanted the house to fall? "Asked Daniel Rangel, responsible for directing the Institute's Museum of Cultural and Artistic Heritage of Bahia (Dimus). The collection, including original furnishings of the house, not suffered serious damage because it is stored in the Palace of Acclaim, in Salvador, about ten years. The house was empty, but construction only began in 2009. The structures were stabilized, the roof and floors were replaced, and until June , all outside will also be recovered.
The project received support from Petrobras and the government of Bahia, but there is still much to reach $ 9 million needed for the works. A step that needs funding is the reconstruction of the sugar factory, which eventually collapsing in recent years. "I visited the museum in 1980 and part of the factory was still whole. It was as if the actors enacting the milled sugar cane and rum made in those giant ovens and pans," says Rangel. The team is also beginning to think about future projects to attract more visitors. Candeias has a small population and few schools in Salvador, 65 miles away, had a habit of making the trip to the museum. The ideas include the use of the area of environment, considered natural heritage, to create a center of biological research, and the building beside a hotel or cabin.
At 40, the Museum Recôncavo Wanderley Pinho, Bahia, is undergoing restoration. The eighteenth-century house will reopen in 2014
Since the eighteenth century, residents and visitors of the Mill Town, the city of Candeias, Bahia, took advantage of the calm sea views of the Bay of All Saints. Also delighted with the four-storey mansion, with 55 rooms, a chapel and library of more than 200 pieces produced since the seventeenth century, including clothing, paintings, decorative objects and furniture. In the last decade, however, only some employees can move around the site. Without undergoing reforms since the 1970s, the building was in danger of collapse. With one month to complete 40 years as headquarters of the Museum Recôncavo Wanderley Pinho, the house is being restored, and should only be reopened in 2014. Money is short, but there are many plans for the future, how to expose pieces of contemporary art in the gardens.
In the place where today stands the house, earlier another machine, looted and burnt by the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Since it was rebuilt the following century, went through periods of rise and decay until it reaches the hands of José Araújo Wanderley de Pinho (1890-1967), heir who conceived the museum. Pine has held various public offices in Congress and defended a bill that eventually led to the creation of the Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (Iphan). The court overturned the house, and in February 1971 the museum opened.
"This is one of the few places in the Recôncavo that maintain the original architecture of the mill. But I could not even get to there. It was raining inside the house, the wooden beams were rotten. Sometimes I wonder: Did they really wanted the house to fall? "Asked Daniel Rangel, responsible for directing the Institute's Museum of Cultural and Artistic Heritage of Bahia (Dimus). The collection, including original furnishings of the house, not suffered serious damage because it is stored in the Palace of Acclaim, in Salvador, about ten years. The house was empty, but construction only began in 2009. The structures were stabilized, the roof and floors were replaced, and until June , all outside will also be recovered.
The project received support from Petrobras and the government of Bahia, but there is still much to reach $ 9 million needed for the works. A step that needs funding is the reconstruction of the sugar factory, which eventually collapsing in recent years. "I visited the museum in 1980 and part of the factory was still whole. It was as if the actors enacting the milled sugar cane and rum made in those giant ovens and pans," says Rangel. The team is also beginning to think about future projects to attract more visitors. Candeias has a small population and few schools in Salvador, 65 miles away, had a habit of making the trip to the museum. The ideas include the use of the area of environment, considered natural heritage, to create a center of biological research, and the building beside a hotel or cabin.
SOURCE: Journal of the History of the National Library
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