The Imperial Museum, popularly known as the Imperial Palace, is a historic museum-thematic located in the historic center of the city of Petropolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Is installed on the Old Summer Palace of the Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II.
Stroll around the gardens of the Imperial Museum is reliving the Empire and know a little more about the tastes of D. Pedro II. It was under the emperor's personal guidance that the gardens that surround the Palace were built by the Parisian landscape architect Jean Baptiste Binot in 1854.
Floors and the frames are made of wood of law such as rosewood, the cedar, the pau-shittim, Rosewood and vinhático from different provinces of the Empire. The stucos of the dining rooms, music, visits of the empress, of state and the bedroom of Their Majesties contribute to the grace and beauty of environments.
The gardens were planned by Jean-Baptiste Binot, with the guidance of the emperor himself, and are still rare species of flora of the five continents. Over the 165 years of its existence, the palace served as a summer residence and educational facility, until becoming museum, in 1943. Besides being the vast and important historic and artistic acquis receives more than 300 thousand visitors a year.
Many curiosities await the viewer. The sumptuousness and beauty are part of this exquisite episode.
Come and visit one of the most important architectural monuments of Brazil.