[2] The 18th-century manor house is considered to be the oldest private rural building from Espírito Santo's colonial period, having been the seat of the Jucutuquara farm.

[3] The manor house has eleven bedrooms, three halls, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a kitchen with tiled floors and a long veranda.

[3] The museum's collection contains around 4,000 items, including furniture, sacred art and household utensils, and is designed to reconstitute the rural residence of a wealthy family in the 19th century.

[6] In 1952, the manor house became home to the collection of the former Capixaba Museum, which had been operating since 1939 and was until then based in the former Military Police Barracks,[1] in what is now Praça Misael Pena, downtown.

[6] In October 2001 the administration passed from UFES to the Iphan Museums Department (Demu), which in 2006 carried out restoration work on the manor house, as well as landscaping and the construction of an amphitheater.