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The highlights of Museum's exhibitions include:

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“What Bahia has got: Bahian gold and silver at the Museu Carlos Costa Pinto - Salvador” - 2006

The exhibition contains about 300 items, including silver objects, balangandan clusters and Creole women’s jewelry. It was accompanied by a catalogue with essays that resulted from extensive research, illustrated with gorgeous photographs.
This was an excellent opportunity for São Paulo residents and visitors to view the unique collection of Creole women’s jewelry and iconic balangandan clusters, which were once worn by African-Brazilian women in Bahia and are steeped in meaning and symbolism.
They can also enjoy the Bahian museum’s sumptuous collection of household, religious and regional silver. The items on display in this exhibition came from the mansions of old Bahian families, churches and convents.

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THE SACRED AND SECULAR IN THE BEATRIZ AND MÁRIO PIMENTA CAMARGO COLLECTION – 2001

This exhibit marked the reopening of the museum’s temporary exhibition rooms. Like the Carlos and Margarida Costa Pinto collection, which gave rise to this museum, the Beatriz and Mário Pimenta Camargo collection resulted from a love story. Miniature furnishings and sacred and secular silver objects were selected for this exhibit. An accompanying catalogue was launched when the exhibit opened.

ST. ANNE: ANGELA GUTIERREZ COLLECTION - 2002

The Ângela Gutierrez collection of statues of St. Anne includes Brazilian, artistic and artisanal works dating from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The exhibit included 200 items made from wood, terracotta, soapstone, ivory and talc stone. This magnificent collection of Christian sacred art made it possible to reflect upon the many and varied aspects of religious devotion, the cult of St. Anne and its expansion within the context of the Brazilian baroque period. A book titled Sant’Anas, based on an idea by the Flávio Gutierrez Cultural Institute, was launched in Salvador when the exhibit opened on September 26.

ORIENTAL ART AS BALLAST IN BAHIAN CULTURE - 1997
Held to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Portugal's discoveries, this exhibition presented porcelain, ivory and lacquer pieces from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, as well as jewelry and clothing worn by the emperors of China and other Asian nations, from the collections of the Museu Carlos Costa Pinto and the Museu Histórico Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition also displayed fragments of Chinese porcelain found on the Bahia coast in 1668 when the galleon Sacramento foundered there (courtesy of the Museu Náutico da Bahia). The exhibition relived the days when Bahia was an obligatory port of call for all Portuguese ships bound for the Far East.

SUGAR CANE: BITTERSWEET - 1998
The Museum's 30th-anniversary exhibition, SUGAR CANE: BITTERSWEET, was based on the life of Carlos Costa Pinto, who became a prosperous sugar exporter. Sugar gave him the wherewithal to become a major art collector as well. The exhibition was mounted in the Museum's gardens, where a miniature cane field was planted, and the ground floor of the building, where Carlos Costa Pinto's office was recreated. Thematic modules gave a historical overview of the sugar industry from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, and porcelain, cutlery and crystal belonging to wealthy planters and their families were displayed in cases and on dinner tables.

THE HOUSEHOLD SILVER - 1994
A commemorative exhibition held on the Museum's 25th anniversary displayed nearly 1,000 pieces from the silver collection. Didactically displayed in several rooms, the exhibition revealed the beauty of these objects, as well as explaining silver's usefulness and significance. This exhibition marked the Museum's Silver Jubilee.


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