located on rua são josé 50 in rio's centro neighborhood, the arts documentation and information center - cedoc is part of funarte, the body responsible for developing government policies for the promotion of national visual arts, music, theater, dance and acrobatics, both inside and outside of brazil.

with more than one million items that document the arts in brazil, cedoc represents a valuable source of historical and cultural information, particularly as it relates to plastic and graphic art, music, photography, drama, dance, cinema and video - this is in addition to the materials that tell the story of funarte itself.