Hello from Santos!: Bolsa de Cafe - Kavemuzeum...Coffee Museum...

Santos ovarosaban talalhato a Bolsa de Cafe (teljes neven Bolsa Oficial de Cafe), vagyis az egykori Kavetozsde, amelynek az epuleteben most a Museu de Cafe, vagyis a Kavemuzeum talalhato.

A muzeumnak ket resze van: a foldszinten talalhato az egykori tozsde szalon, ahol a kaveugyleteket bonyolitottak, illetve egy kavezo, ahol idokozonkent meghivott muveszek adnak zenes estet, es ahol barista tanfolyamokat is szerveznek.

A kavetozsde terme mogott Benedito Calixto 19. szazadi festo festmenyei lathatok, ezek kozul ketto Santos varos kikotojet abrazolja 1822 es 1922-bol, a harmadik kep pedig Santos varos alapitasat orokitette meg 1525-bol.

Az emeleti muzeumi resz kulonfele kiallitasoknak ad helyet. Ottjartunkkor, az allando kavetorteneti kiallitason kivul, ket tovabbi fotokiallitas is helyet kapott, az egyik az "Imigrantes do Cafe" amely az europai bevandorlok hetkoznapjait mutatja be 1910 korul. Akkoriban a santosi kikotot jelentette Brazilia kapuit a bevandorlok elott, a kiallitas pedig archiv felveteleken mutatja be a munkajukat a kaveultetvenyeken.

A masik fotokiallitas, a "Feito a Mao" magarol a kavekeszites folyamatarol osszeallitott fekete-feher kepsorozat; a fotos ket even at, tobb allamban keszitett fotokat es az ezekbol osszevalogatott kepekbol nyilt most kiallitas.

A muzeum utan termeszetesen megittunk egy csesze kavet a foldszinten levo kavezoban; Eclezionak sikerult egy olyan meregeros eszpresszot rendelnie ami sajna kifogott rajta (vagyis talan a vernyomasaval), en szerencsere a szokasos tejes kavemat kertem ami valami isteni finom volt, foleg, hogy tejszinhabot is kertem a tetejere :-)

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The imposing building where the Bolsa Oficial de Cafe (the former coffee stock exchange) operated in Santos is a host today to one of the most interesting museums you will visit in Brazil: the Museu do Cafe (coffee museum).

For decades, Santos was the HQ for the ever important coffee-producing sector of the Brazilian economy. On the first half of the 20th century coffee was the main source of wealth for Brazil. Big panels at the museum show scenes from daily life at the turn of the century.

The museum is divided in two halves. First you will visit the salon where coffee stocks were negotiated. On the ceiling there`s a spectacular stained glass by local artist Benedito Calixto. On an adjacent room several panels and utensils tell the story of coffee.

Behind the salon there are huge paintings hanging on the wall showing the port of Santos in 1822 and one hundred year later, in 1922. Another painting shows Santos city founded in 1545.

The first floor of the museum contains panels and all sorts of tools and items related to the history of coffee in Brazil as well as gives place for exhibitions.

Currently there are two exhibitions have been running on the first floor: "Imigrantes do Cafe" which portrays the daily life of immigrants arrived through the Port of Santos, which was the country`s main gateway, in 1910. Archive photos show immigrants from several countries who worked on coffee plantations between 1910 and 1920.

The other exhibition is the "Feito a Mao" which features photographs about the manual work on coffee fields and coffee making facilities. A photographer visited numerous farms across the country and a selected collection is shown nowadays.

I took some pictures of those archive photos and found pretty interesting to see "behind the scenes", how people were living in the past centuries and when European immigrants started to "invade" Brazil.

Source:

http://www.braziltravelblog.com/2010/10/18/coffee-museum-santos/

http://www.museudocafe.org.br/

Bolsa de Cafe
A regi kavetozsde epulete, ma muzeum / The building of coffee stock exchange; today operates as coffee musem