{"id":19782,"date":"2014-12-29T10:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=19782"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T12:29:59","slug":"museu-da-mare-recognized-as-a-tourist-attraction-by-rio-de-janeiro-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=19782","title":{"rendered":"Museu da Mar\u00e9 Recognized as a Tourist Attraction by Rio de Janeiro State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Por<\/strong>tugu\u00eas<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

For the original in Portuguese, published in Jornal Extra, click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Visitors and beneficiaries of the activities offered by the Museu da\u00a0Mar\u00e9<\/a> have reason to be more at ease. The deadline for the loan the NGO was due to pay was extended for an extra 90 days. In addition, the museum, launched in 2006, was recognized on\u00a0Wednesday December 10 as a main tourist attraction by the State of Rio de Janeiro. The title, granted to applause at a meeting with the State\u2019s Tourism Council, made the museum\u2019s entry onto the list of official tourist attractions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recognition of the Museu da Mar\u00e9 as one of the State\u2019s main tourist attractions will make its status equivalent to that of Sugarloaf Mountain or Corcovado and other tourism icons. One of the main\u00a0outcomes, for example, will be investment towards publicity and support supplied by the state,\u201d said the State Secretary of Tourism Claudio Magnavita.<\/p>\n

The real estate company A Cia Libra de Navega\u00e7\u00e3o had solicited the seizure of the land on which the museum stands<\/a>, scheduled for Tuesday December 9. However, due to negotiations intermediated by the state government, the company decided to extend its contract. The Museu da\u00a0Mar\u00e9 hosts\u00a0an assortment of activities<\/a> such as the preservation and propagation of the surrounding communities’ history, in addition to offering workshops and classes for more than 300 children and teenagers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe carried out concrete actions to avoid the closing of the museum<\/a>. On November 25, the government’s official news portal published a resolution that established a group to take care of the issue. The group had 15 days to present their solution. We spoke with the owner of the company and we received today (Tuesday December 9) a letter with the extension. Now we will study available juridical alternatives to maintain this tourist attraction. We have until March 10, 2015 to choose a definitive solution,\u201d said\u00a0the Secretary of Tourism.<\/p>\n

On December 12, the museum received an award from the Brazilian Institute of Architects (IAB) in the category of Personalities of the Year in their 52nd Annual Awards. On December 20 the museum (which is located on Rua Guilherme Maciel, 26, near Passarela 8 on Avenida Brasil) distributed tourism pamphlets about the institution. Sponsored by the State Secretary of Tourism, the pamphlet was distributed during an event that brought together representatives of the sector like the Brazilian Association of Travel Agents (Abav), the Brazilian Association of the Hotel Industry (ABIH) and the Association of Tourism Journalists. During the event Christmas presents were distributed amongst the children and there was a gift raffle.<\/p>\n

According to Magnavita, a study conducted by the Get\u00falio Vargas Foundation shows that tourists who visit favelas are most curious about their history.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, the Museu da Mar\u00e9 was the most visited<\/a> during the Global Congress for Museums. All sector businessmen were very interested in learning how a project so rich in a region so poor was implemented,\u201d said\u00a0the secretary.<\/p>\n

There is already a project to install signs with information about the history of the community in the first half of 2015. For the coordinator of the museum, Ant\u00f4nio Carlos Vieira, the measure adopted by the government was a win for the community and for the history of Complexo da Mar\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a measure that will give us more possibilities to have an open dialogue. We were working to a very\u00a0tight\u00a0deadline and almost had to close the museum<\/a>. We didn\u2019t have anywhere to go. In the community of Mar\u00e9 there isn\u2019t enough space for what the institution needs. It was there that the Mar\u00e9 occupation nucleus was formed. The museum has come to recover history, and to record\u00a0the memories of its residents. Instead of feeling embarrassed, the residents feel pride<\/a> when they learn about their history. It generates a feeling of belonging. It is really good for our youth especially because it ennobles them,\u201d says Vieira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original in Portuguese, published in Jornal Extra, click\u00a0here. Visitors and beneficiaries of the activities offered by the Museu da\u00a0Mar\u00e9 have reason to be more at ease. The deadline for […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":18473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1293,1290,1268,1330],"tags":[1361,771,280,504,221,11,170,188,1160,716,37,270,453],"writer":[1749],"translator":[491],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-evictionswatch","8":"category-civilsociety","9":"category-favelaculture","10":"category-translation","11":"tag-endfavelastigma","12":"tag-community-pride","13":"tag-complexo-da-mare","14":"tag-culture","15":"tag-favela-culture","16":"tag-forced-evictions","17":"tag-historic-preservation","18":"tag-history","19":"tag-museu-da-mare","20":"tag-museum","21":"tag-north-zone","22":"tag-resistance","23":"tag-stigma","24":"writer-o-globo","25":"translator-emma-platais"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=19782"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=19782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}