[1] On 15 December 1945, the museum was inaugurated to house regional artefacts and to re-create and display traditional environments, through the initiaties of ethnographer Dr. Pedro Vitorino.

[1] The building was owned by the descendants of Álvaro Leite Pereira de Melo Ferreira da Silva Pinto in 1994.

With an ample public space to the north, it is situated on a slight slope, occupied by a few terraces linked by staircases and pedestrian walkways in granite.

[1] The three-storey, L-shaped building with its largest facade oriented to the south, and a small wing, towards the west, covered in tiled roof.

[1] On the top floor, are seven windows, of which six are surmounted by broken frontispieces, while the central is much higher and flanked by curvilinear scribes.