Hi!
Last week was pretty hectic, I went to several new locations and the first one was the Memorial Municipal Getúlio Vargas. I left home and took the subway, I was heading to Glória station. The station is well signed, and it was pretty easy to identify the right way to my destination according to the information I had. So I went to Russell Street, where you can also find the NGO Viva Rio http://vivario.org.br/.
Once out of the station I saw one old man carrying his purchases and I asked him where was the Memorial - since he said he was just going near there, I just followed him. To exit the station, one must simply go to the left, toward Praça Luís de Camões. We were talking about many stuffs and he confessed he has been living there for 25 years, very near the Memorial, but he had only been there 2 times. I told him this is something very normal, because we tend to think there will always be another opportunity to visit... but we let time pass untill one day we realize that we did not enjoy enough the places we have at home. We traveled to know others places, but ours owns are left unknown...
The memorial is simple but very interesting. It is a tribute to Getúlio, a former president and dictator of Brazil, so it seeks to portray him as a major political and I don’t intend to judge if he really was or not. However, I thought it was cool to see some of the history of our city through the political history of Getúlio Vargas. The memorial is well structured; it has large screens with images and stories of those days in both English and Portuguese. It was interesting to find out that the construction of the Avenida Presidente Vargas torned down 4 churches and more than 500 buildings.
Anyway, I just thought that a few desks made the Memorial look a bit abandoned, since they were with the lights off, making it difficult to read some texts which, by the way, were only written in Portuguese.
The air conditioning system is very slow there and, as we are now in this period of insane heat, it was hard for the first 20 minutes ... after a while I was getting used to it.
There is no need to pay for nothing, just sign their attendance book. The security staff is very friendly, the security girl even told me about cafe and bookstore that used to be there, when I asked about the books displayed on a desk. But when I asked her to take a picture of me, she said she couldn’t: the security firm rule forbids them to hold any objects that don’t belong to them. I thought it was cool of her explaining that to me, and I just took selfies in this visit.
At the end of the exhibition, I enjoyed the opportunity to read the two most important letters written by Vargas, the letter will and the farewell letter. There is also an area in the memorial center that I will let you go and discover for yourselves!
Do not forget to take a photo with the head of the Getúlio in the square, ok? There is a plate with a great phrase: "I get out of life to enter into history", and a small plaque explaining that the memorial is a tribute of the Rio de Janeiro’s city hall.
Lastly, I discovered that the large screens with stories and photos of the Memorial can be found on their website on the virtual exhibition, but only in Portuguese.
Kiss kiss and nice walk!
Tati.
REGISTRATION FORM:
Visit’s Date: 04/02/2014
Adress: Praça Luís de Camões s/n. - Glória.
Telephone: (21)2557-9444/2245-7577
Directions: Using the subway, just get off at Glória station, or any bus that passes by Praça Luís de Camões or maybe Rua do Russel – there are many options, the local map and click here to find out: english or spanish.
Working Hours: Tuesday to saturdays from 10am to 5pm, closed on mondays ans sundays.
Guided Tour: none.
Entry Price: Free admission, just sign their attendance book.
Toilets/drink water fountains: toilets are very clean but there isn’t any drink water fountains inside.
Cafe/Restaurant/Convenience Store: none.
Accessibility: Is good, they have a wheelchair that assists individuals with disabilities to go down in the stairs. It is only necessary to turn on the ringer located left of the stairs.
Audio guide: none.
Lockers and space for stroller: none, not necessary because you can enter with all your bags.
Recommended duration of stay: hum…I believe something around 1 hour and a half.
Parking: there isn’t one, but there are vacancies on the square of the Memorial and in the street called Rua do Russel, near the NGO Viva Rio.
Camera: I could use with flash inside the museum without problems.
Air Conditioning: yes, but it’s slow, so in the beginning I felt hot and I only got better after 20 minutes.
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