The museum’s design brings up the Puris and Coroados tribes' stories. These tribes were initially from coastal zones; thus, they used to live near beaches and used fishing and hunting to survive.

When the Portuguese expeditions started, these first people fled to the southwestern part of Brazil, following the river named Paraba do Sul and its tributaries, the Pomba and Muriaé rivers, where they took refuge in the Mantiqueira zone.

The design proposal’s goal is to protect and make people aware of these first people’s culture by showing them discoveries from archeological sites.