Painters such as Crispim do Amaral, Fernandes Machado, Aurélio de Figueiredo and Antônio Parreiras would spend long periods of time in the city executing a large number of works requested by wealthy families and public authorities.

With an anarchic-libertarian ideology, the club was created by painters Moacir Andrade, Afrânio de Castro, Oscar Ramos and Anísio Mello, and writers Antístenes Pinto, Alencar e Silva and Jorge Tufic, with the aim of promoting a series of avant-garde actions in the fields of visual arts and literature.

[5] Initially, the Pinacoteca was housed in a room in the right wing of the Amazonas Public Library building, on Barroso Street, with a total collection of 90 works of art, including paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures.

Álvaro Páscoa's work as a teacher at the Pinacoteca is particularly noteworthy, since he was responsible for training a whole generation of contemporary artists, such as Hahnemann Bacelar, Enéas Valle, Zeca Nazaré, Van Pereira, Thyrso Muñoz and Jair Jacqmont; the latter became the institution's director in the 1990s.

Essentially educational, it presents evidence of the material culture of immemorial human groups who lived in the area, along with banners with texts and photos explaining "archaeological activity" in the field.

The main objective is to show the visiting public a little of the pre-colonial knowledge, from an anthropological and artistic perspective, of the peoples who lived in the region and bequeathed the most diverse forms of cultural expression.

[9] It presents the history of the Amazonas Military Police, with original furniture from the time, as well as an integrated archive with individual notebooks of members of the organization, along with weapons, uniforms, armor from the 16th century and equipment used by the State Fire Department.

It represents an important part of the history of the state of Amazonas and the corporation to which it belongs, preserving and providing society with the entity's historical collection, which consists of dozens of objects, such as: old weapons, Fire Department equipment, uniforms, badges and decorations, documents, photographs and more.

It was officially established on July 18, 1965, during the government of Artur César Ferreira Reis, as the result of an initiative that had been nurtured since the 1950s by a group of intellectuals linked to the Clube da Madrugada, specifically Moacir de Andrade.

The collection includes some of the most famous historical paintings by Joaquim Fernandes Machado, such as A Glória coroando Gonçalves Dias and Primeiro voo de Santos Dumont.

By Antônio Parreiras, the museum preserves the oils Quarta-feira de cinzas and Caçador furtivo, probably acquired by the state government during the artist's exhibition at the Rio Negro Palace in 1905.

[13] In the contemporary art segment, there are works by artists of national expression (Adhemar Guerra, Acácio Sobral, Antônio Dias, Emmanuel Nassar, Dora Basílio, etc.)