Henriqueta Catharino Museum

Fundação Instituto Feminino da Bahia is a private, Catholic, non-profit institution based in the neighborhood of Politeama in the city of Salvador. Solid and richly built, with marble and wooden floors, large environments, and spacious circulations around the stairs, the mansion which houses the Fundação Instituto Feminino da Bahia, which dazzles for its architecture, will challenge the visitor to imagine a life that once existed there. With a modern vision and the establishment of bold partnerships, D. Henriqueta's collection began, after several donation campaigns , which counted on the participation of Bahian families. Amidst halls and rooms decorated with a rich collection of "Ancient Art" from the 19th and 20th century, the environment that today recreates a Brazilian manor of that period emerged. The collection of the Instituto Feminino da Bahia Foundation has a wide and diversified collection formed by more of 15,000 pieces. Among these, the Decorative Art collection of the Henriqueta Catharino Museum, composed of furniture, crystals, silverware, glass, porcelain, imagery, paintings, sculptures and decorative objects in general, which portray the daily life and the social structure of the transition period between the 19th and 20th centuries.