A boy looks at a model of a ship on display at the Espaco Cultura da Marinha (Navy Cultural Center) in downtown Rio de Janeiro. With no entrance fee, the museum tracks Brazil's naval history. It has a great collection of paintings and drawings of colonial Rio, maps, model ships as well as real ships on display.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)

A boy looks at a model of a ship on display at the Espaco Cultura da Marinha (Navy Cultural Center) in downtown Rio de Janeiro. With no entrance fee, the museum tracks Brazil's naval history. It has a great collection of paintings and drawings of colonial Rio, maps, model ships as well as real ships on display.(Australfoto/Douglas Engle)