Museum of the Black History in Porto Alegre

According to Karitha Soares, "the proposal was to walk through the places where black Africans and their descendants built memories, whether through work, plight, cultural expressions, or resistance.

[7] The idea of the museum thus emerged, as Pedro Vargas said, as a way to revisit and rewrite the city's history, and to claim "civil and political rights of representation of the black ethnic group in the concert of memories and peoples that originated and make Porto Alegre.

"[8] After a historical research to identify the places of reference, memory and belonging of black territories in Porto Alegre, led by Professor Iosvaldyr Bittencourt Júnior, in partnership with several griot masters such as Walter Calixto Ferreira, José Alves Bitencourt, Nilo Feijó and Elaine Rodrigues,[9] a project was elaborated to enable its materialization, by a group of artists, historians, journalists, museologists and researchers, all militants of the black movement, where Arilson dos Santos Gomes, Jeanice Dias Ramos, Lorecinda Abraão, Vinícius Vieira, Pedro Rubens Vargas, Ivan Braz, Adriana Santos and Fernanda Carvalho stand out.

[10] Approved by the Participatory Budget, the first stage of its implementation was completed in 2011 with the participation of the Afro-Brazilian Reference Center, the coordination of the Angola Janga Working Group and support from the City Hall and the Monumenta Program.

[1][11] In the meantime, the Carris Company organized a bus tour through the city's black territories, passing through most of the places defined in the museum, which due to the great demand by schools and educational projects was extended far beyond the forecast.

It recreates a new look, carrying the joy, the foundations and the belonging of the base that built the municipality until the arrival of the Italian/German immigrants, and the beginning of reparation to the memory and the struggles of these ancestors.