Looking for expansion its frontiers and reach
a new public, Museu do Café also counts
with virtual exhibitions.
In virtual exhibition Memórias da Praça [Plaza Memories], you know coffee broker histories in Santos City by testimonies, pictures and texts. Brokers were very important people for grain commerce in City and one of places where they worked was Bolsa Oficial de Café, place which today is Museu do Café.
Three paintings from Benedicto Calixto exhibited in Auction Room of Museu do Café narrates a little of history of Santos from painter’s view. With this application, also available for smartphones and tablets, you can have details and curiosity of all pictures of this São Paulo art icon.
Divided into four modules, the exhibition Armazéns de Café [Coffee Storehouse] pictures the working of these hangars by testimonies of believers of storehouses, baggers and pickers, giving new perspective of grain daily in Santos City. In exhibition, you can hear history from coffee storage professionals who had direct contact with grain procedures and everyday between 1940’s and 1980’s, complemented by texts and pictures of places and workers.
