it starts at Carlos Costa Pinto Museum with its collection of colonial furniture made of jacaranda wood, colonial pieces including antique jewellery. There are 3,175 pieces divided into 12 collections: Crystal, Design, Miscellaneous, Sculptures, Engravings, Imagery, Furniture, Awards of Honour, metalwork, Painting, Porcelain and Silverware. The tour continues exploring through Salvador's African history at the Afro-Brazilian Museum, which has interesting exhibits from Africa with artistic works in basketry, ceramics, and wood carvings. A collection of rustic pieces that shows the great influence of Africa on Bahía: Capoeira, Orixas and a series of wood panels sculpted of the Orixas by the premier artist Salvador Caribé. Continue to the Abelardo Rodrigues museum, a Pernambuco collector, who throughout his life put together one of the most important collections made up of more than 800 objects that reveal the historical and artistic trajectory of sacred art in Brazil. The tour ends at the MAM (Museum of Modern Art) with its historical architecture in the middle of the urban plaza; the Museum has a large house, chapel, “senzala” (place where the slaves lived), a fountain and landing channels. Its construction marked the Bahian cultural history and became a symbol of the opulence of colonial architecture in the 18th century. The current MAM-BA collection is made up of more than 1200 pieces, from different languages, traditions and places in the world.