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Address Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, 06144-220, Brazil Similar Palácio da Polícia, Museu Socioambiental de Itaipu, Passeio Público, Museu da Imagem e do Som d, Museu Aeroespacial | ||
The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Museum organizes and promotes permanent and temporary exhibitions of documents and items that portray the activities of Civil Police in the History of Rio de Janeiro since Colonial times.
It was founded in 1912 and is headquarters in the 1910 French eclectic style building, projected by famous architect Heitor de Mello.
Today is divided into the following sections: institution of the police force and its history, uniformed police in the former federal capital, technical police, the extinct political police, initial communications, forbidden games and armament.
It contains an important ethnographic collection on Afro-Brazilian cults from the beginning of the 20th century, preserved and proclaimed IPHAN National Trust in 1938.
It is registered under the International Council of Museums as a Brazilian scientific museum.