Museum do Comercio de Alagoas

With an 81-year wait, the Commerce Museum of Alagoas - MUCOM is installed in the Palácio do Comércio. It was the will of the board that built the headquarters of the Commercial Association of Maceió, and Homero Galvão clearly revealed it in his opening speech, on June 16, 1928, registered in the Jornal de Alagoas the following day. The sequence of the circuit is the history of the Association, represented by a rich collection of period furniture and utensils and great high-resolution iconography. A collection of coins explains the change in the first monetary standard and even displays the circulating medium of sugar mills. Finally, we dive into the picturesque past of the Jaraguá neighborhood, with its houses, its extensive development, its working people, its shops and the port. The museum was born with a vocation to research, therefore, those who wish to expand their knowledge and research from the formation of the Boards of Commerce, in the time of Dom João VI to the many stories of the discoveries, trips to India, Spice trade, slaves up to the statistics of slave ships or the movement of the port of Maceió, the Museum offers facsimile works from the Libraries, National of Portugal, Overseas Archive, National of Brazil, Public Domain and Brasiliana, as well as the Commercial Association's own collection from Maceió, with its 11 books of minutes and the deeds of the movement of imports and exports of sugar, cotton and so many other goods that passed through the port of Jaraguá.