The Santa Maria Museum is housed in a house in the center of the parish of Santo Espírito. It occupies a two-story building and has an annex that serves as a reserve. This property, built in the early twentieth century, denotes in its architecture some of the changes suffered over time, and cannot be considered a typically rural house. Of the most relevant architectural elements, we highlight the two tubular chimneys and the bulging shape of the oven, characteristic elements of the Mariense rural architecture.

In the nineties of the twentieth century this property underwent adaptation works for its new function.

The history of the Santa Maria Museum goes back to the end of the sixties of the twentieth century and the beginning of the following decade through the initiative of the Parish Priest of the Parish of Santo Espírito José Maria Amaral, who began an exhaustive collection of pieces together with the community in order to preserve its identity. Inaugurating the then Ethnographic and Parish Museum of Santo Espírito, later and already under the tutelage of Culture it became the Ethnographic House and in 1996 it was officially inaugurated as the Museum of Santa Maria Island.

OPENING HOURS

WINTER - October 1st to March 31st

Tuesday to Sunday and Holidays - 09.30 - 17.00
Last Entrance - 17.00
Building closed to the public - 17.30
Closed on Mondays

SUMMER - April 1st to September 30th

Tuesday to Sunday and Holidays - 10.00 - 17.30
Last Entrance - 17.30
Building closed to the public - 18.00
Closed on Mondays