Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo

This guide to the Museu da Imigração in São Paulo begins in the old disinfection room, where every newcomer was once stripped and scrubbed before being let in. It centers on 1899, when bubonic plague reached the port of Santos and this building was sealed under quarantine for five months. You'll hear about a three-year-old girl named Nicolina, whose family tried to flee the isolation order. Listen for the dormitories where arrivals once waited their turn.