IMPERIAL MUSEUM
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The Brazilian emperors built Petropolis for its coolness. You can't stay in Petropolis without visiting the Imperial Museum!
To escape the hot summers of Rio and the Brazilian coast, the Brazilian emperors chose high, inland locations to spend their vacations in the cool. They built Petropolis. The Imperial Museum is a neoclassical building that was once the Emperor's country home. We pass a dining room with porcelain and crystal tableware. In the music room, the Chickering grand on which the regent Isabel used to play is enthroned, along with a Pleyel spinet and harp. The regalia: gold and diamond scepters, swords and gold-embroidered ceremonial garments. Everyday objects: a Sèvres porcelain chest, velvet cradles, toiletries and paintings. There is also a large, splendid table on which the first Constitution of Brazil was signed, and two crowns: one with no diamonds, the other with six hundred and thirty and weighing 1,700g. This is the son's crown, for which all the brilliants had been removed from the father's. Note the act of abolition of slavery signed by Isabel, which paradoxically hastened the fall of the empire: article 1, slavery is abolished; article 2, all provisions to the contrary are annulled.
A family tree will also show that Louis XIV is Pedro I 's ancestor, and that he is Pedro I's ancestor three times over, as the Sun King's grandson, Philip V of Spain, was also Pedro's grandfather. From Thursday to Saturday, sound and light show at 8 p.m.
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