[1] The Estação das Docas is the result of restoration work on three warehouses in the old port of Belém, which replaced the precarious Ver-o-Peso and Reduto docks.

In 1909, the first 120-meter stretch of quay and a 2,000 m2 warehouse were built in English iron with steam engines powering the site's equipment, typical of the architecture of the second half of the 1800s.

[4] Its collection, organized by a team of staff led by historian Dantas de Feitosa, tells the story of navigation in the state of Pará and is composed of photographs and pieces found through excavations during the restoration of the space.

The then president of the province, Bernardo de Sousa Franco, consulted the then Minister of War, José Clemente Pereira, who took the question to Emperor Pedro II; he chose to dissolve the remains of the structure in 1841.

[2][7] Founded in 2002, the building was named after Maria Sylvia Ferreira da Silva Nunes, a professor and theater director from Pará.