Recife City Museum

Beautiful and well kept fortification from the times when the Dutch were the local colonial power. However, there is not much to see beyond the building and a few displays

Cool fort with small museum about the history of the city. The museum is just one room - mostly maps showing the development of the city over time. Informative but pretty basic. All in both Portuguese and English. You can walk all around the ramparts of the fort, with many English, Dutch and Swedish cannons (in very bad condition). There's a wonderful model of recife as it during Dutch rule. There's also two temporary galleries (local art) and a theater. Worth a visit really just for the fort. Entry is free.

The museum contains just two table displays of some ancient artifacts (clay smoking pipes), and that's it. The rest is an exhibition of photos and panorams in just one big room. If you're short of original materials, in a good museum you'd make reconstructions - e.g. of a living room of old times, of a working room, of the fort commander, of soldiers' barracks. But the fort is empty, with just old cannons. The state of museums in very sad. New glossy materials and cleanness compensate, but only so far. The photos as postcards that were sold, turned out that I already saw on google image search. When visiting museums, I want to see the history and get a feeling of life happening there in modern and in old times. This museum barely gives any of this feeling.

Very interesting and informative displays, helpful staff. The fort itself has been renovated and the whole site is well worth the visit.

Very good exposition in the museum

Great place with exposition explaining history of Recife at historic location of the original Fort. Friendly staff which speak English. There is little shop on the entrance with some gadgets connected with colorful history of town Recife. Worth visit as the entrance is free and located around Old Town and great market place.

The that keep up the Forte das Cinco Pontas where the museum is located are very knowledgeable. There are descriptions in both Portuguese and English for most dislays so if you don't know Portuguese you can still understand.

Wonderful historical construction, with a great museum inside, great opportunity to learn more about the Dutch take over of the city and it's reconquer by the portugueses. Also relevant to know more of Frei Caneca, Ann important Brazilian historical figure.