The Amazon Indigenous Museum was conceived by Father Luciano Matarazzi, starting from 1973, when he founded it with gifts from missionaries from Alto Solimões.
Currently, MUMA, the Indigenous Missionary Museum, is entirely multimedia and interactive. It is a historical, ethnographic, scientific, missionary museum that allows visitors to learn about and deepen their understanding on multiple levels of the Alto Solimões region, its flora and fauna, the indigenous Ticuna nation, the colorful Brazilian world, and finally the projects carried out by the friars themselves through the construction of churches, buildings, and schools.
The museum itinerary unfolds across the three floors of the building: on the first floor, the history of the Capuchin friars’ mission in the Alto Solimões area; on the second floor, the theme of nature symbolically linked to Brother River and Sister Forest; and on the third floor, The Gospel in the Suitcase, which documents the history of the mission worldwide.
Information about MUMA – Indigenous Missionary Museum
Via San Francesco, 19/D
06081 Assisi (Perugia)
075812280
Source: MIBACT
