The Museum of Yesterday for Android

11 things about The Museum of Yesterday

1. The Museum of Yesterday was developed in Casa Pública, the first cultural center for journalism in Brazil, a project by Agência Pública.

2. + Hear excerpts from the book 1808, by the journalist Laurentino Gomes (Globo), and slave announcements published in Rio newspapers from the 19th century, as read by singer Anelis Assumpção (in Portuguese).

3. + Choose from five "tours": The Corruption Tour; the Terror Tour; The Samba Tour; the Ghosts Tour, of that which haunts downtown Rio; and the the Brazil History Express Tour.

4. It was here that the royal Portuguese family first landed in 1808, where Princess Isabel signed the Lei Aúrea into law in 1888, ending slavery in the country, and here, where the Republic was proclaimed in 1889.

5. Founded in 2011, Agência Pública is an independent, non-profit journalism initiative focused on the production of investigative reports distributed by more than 70 re-publishers.

6. Our mission is to make journalism guided by public interest, aiming to strengthen the right to information and the quality of public debate, as well as the promotion of human rights.

7. But the Porto Maravilha was also the site of the largest slave port in the Americas, receiving more than 700 thousand black slaves.

8. And it was the place where President João Goulart staged the Comício da Central, a mass rally used as an excuse to carry out the 1964 military coup.

9. The Museum of Yesterday won the UN World Summit Award 2017, in the 'Culture & Tourism' category, representing Brazil.

10. These and other facts can be discovered while exploring the port on foot with the app, as guided by a current map as well as a map from 1832.

11. The Rio de Janeiro port has a rich past filled with a history that goes beyond what's taught in the school books.