at a glance

villa lobos museum is a museum dedicated to the important brazilian musician heitor villa-lobos, who was born in rio de janeiro in 1887 - in 1960 lobo's widowed wife established museu villa-lobos in his honor, originally located in the palácio gustavo capanema, it is now housed in a mansion in botafogo.

in three large rooms museu villa-lobos hosts permanent and temporary exhibitions covering the life of the most influential brazilian composer of the 20th century - every november, villa lobo stages the villa lobo music festival.

Heitor Villa-Lobos was awareded with developing a music style particularly 'brazilian', his work included and combined elements from brazilian regional cultures, folk songs, and indigenous rhythms.