The Cabangu Museum ( pt, Museu de Cabangu) is a museum in the town of
Santos Dumont,
Brazil
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. It is dedicated to the memory of
Santos Dumont, the "Father of Aviation".
In the house, personal objects, photos and the aviation museum are still preserved. In the Museum are also deposited the ashes of the first woman pilot of the Brazilian aviation,
Anésia Pinheiro Machado.
Cabangu
There are three versions for the meaning of the word "Cabangu":
*The first, somewhat folkloric, comes from the transformation of the phrase "The angu is over" (in Portuguese: Acabou o angu), used by the old residents at the time of the construction of the
railroad
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in the region, that with the passage of time became Cabangu.
*The second, would be a place where, at the time of the
Inconfidência Mineira, a
caboclo
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lived with the
surname
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Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
"Cabangu".
*The third, whose
etymology
Etymology ()The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the Phonological chan ...
would originate in the
Tupi-Guarani, name of the beginning of the Mantiqueira region: "Caa (woods) / bangu (dark).
Financial problems
The Museum has been suffering from lack of cash, labor debts and inability to maintain and restore content. The institution even tried to make crowdfunding, but has been closed a few times for lack of funds.
See also
*
Timeline of aviation
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Timelines can use any suitable scale representi ...
References
External links
Official pagein the
Wayback Machine
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Museums in Brazil
Aerospace museums in Brazil
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Museums in Minas Gerais
Biographical museums in Brazil
Houses in Brazil
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