page_title: Carmen Miranda Museum
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Carmen Miranda Museum / Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Vestidos e fotos de Carmen Miranda expostos no Museu Carmen Miranda no Rio de Janeiro.
context_page_description: Carmen Miranda Museum, located in the Parque Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, is a museum established in homage to singer and actress Carmen Miranda and open to the public since 1976. The museum has been officially opened on the 21st anniversary of her death.
  The museum exhibits iconographic costumes, including her tall fruit hats and platform-heeled shoes, and artifacts belonging to Carmen, as well as many of her records and films. In the second half of 2015, the new headquarters for the Carmen Miranda Museum will be opened at Rio de Janeiro's new Museum of Image and Sound.
context_section_description: Its collection has some three thousand and five hundred pieces, mostly personal belongings of the artist, donated by the family after her death in 1955, through her sister Aurora Miranda and widower David Alfred Sebastian.
  It consists of musical scores, scripts, programs and costumes, and their collection of clothing, with costumes social and scenes, jewelry, platform shoes, turbans and accessories. With highlights, the skirt worn in The Streets of Paris, on Broadway in 1939, the turban worn at their wedding, the clothing worn the night she was honored in Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 1941. A large number of her publicity photos are on display blown up to near life-size, along with smaller photos showing the story of her life and career (2,000 photos), also on display is the outfit  she wore to the 1941 Academy Awards ceremony, as well as jewelry and accessories, including some of her trademark tall fruit hats. The museum also has a large collection of video documentaries, biographies, the movies she starred in, and a compilation of her songs.
  About ten thousand people visit the museum each year. The museum also has a collection of over 2,000 photos. The museum also preserves original screenplays of films made in the United States, photographs, posters, trophies and awards. In addition to five thousand newspaper clippings and magazines that report historical events of the "Brazilian bombshell".
  In February 2009, the museum opened the celebration of Carmen Miranda's birth centennial. As part of the birth centennial year kickoff, the museum got a life-size resin statue of Carmen, created by artist Ulysses Rabelo, who studied her death mask and dental arch for the project. The statue wears the actual dress Carmen donned in That Night in Rio (1941).
  For many years, Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (one of his sisters) was the manager of the collection of museu.
caption: Carmen Miranda's dresses and photos exhibited at the Museum.
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