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| Taipa Houses–Museum | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 龍環葡韻住宅式博物館 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 龙环葡韵住宅式博物馆 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese name | |||||||||||
| Portuguese | Casas-Museu da Taipa | ||||||||||
The Taipa Houses–Museum (Chinese: 龍環葡韻住宅式博物館; Portuguese: Casas-Museu da Taipa) is housed in a set of old houses in Taipa, Macau, China.[1]
The museum complex consists of five houses, of which four display various artefacts and exhibits on life during Macau's colonial era while another serves as an event venue.[2] The houses were built in 1921. These colonial residences were restored to recreate houses of well-off Portuguese families living in Macau during the first half of the 20th century. The last house was restored in 1999. The Taipa Houses–Museum opened on 5 December 1999 and is administered by the Cultural Affairs Bureau.[2]
The houses used to look out over the sea, but due to land reclamation of the Cotai area between Taipa and Coloane. This body of water is now a small wetland.
Every autumn, the Cultural Affairs Bureau organises the Lusofonia Festival at the open space outside the museums.
