The Angra do Heroísmo Museum is a museum of synthesis, where it seeks to reflect, at the same time, a story with their facts and political and economic movements marked by the Atlantic domain and a culture in its many forms and meanings generated and molded an insular existence. It is installed since 1969 in […]
The current collections of the Carlos Machado Museum, subject to minor collections in the field of epigraphy, agro-industrial and decorative arts technologies, spread across four main sections: Natural History, Art, Religious Art and Ethnography. The Natural History collections relate to the museum’s founding in the late nineteenth century, and reflect the scientific spirit of the […]
The Museum of Santa Maria is located in the parish of the Espirito Santo – Holy Spirit, the municipality of Vila do Porto, the island of Santa Maria in the Azores. It is a government institution dedicated to ethnography and the dissemination and cultural promotion that integrates the network of museums of the Azores, working […]
The cult of the Holy Spirit (Portuguese: Culto do Divino Espírito Santo) is a religious sub-culture, inspired by Christian millenarian mystics, associated with Azorean Catholicidentity, consisting of iconography, architecture, and religious practices that have continued in many communities of the archipelago as well as the broader Portuguese diaspora. Beyond the Azores, the Cult of the Holy Spirit is alive in parts of Brazil (where it was […]
