Opened in 2014 in Tiradentes' former town jail, this is the latest innovative museum project conceived by Belo Horizonte–based Angela Gutierrez, creator of Ouro Preto’s Museu do Oratório and Belo Horizonte's Museu de Artes e Ofícios . The simple but beautifully presented collection features 270 images of St Ann in wood, stone and terracotta, from the 17th century to the present. Bilingual exhibits trace the importance of St Anne imagery throughout Brazil and its evolution through the baroque and rococo periods.
