The Palácio Antônio Lemos, also called the Belém Art Museum, is a public building, palace, museum, and the city hall of Belém, built in 1860 by José da Gama Abreu, in the context of the rubber cycle. It is located in the Cidade Velha neighborhood.

Cidade Velha, initially called Mairi, Cidade or Sé neighborhood, is a historic area of the capital of Pará, Belém, founded in the 1620s. It is the first and oldest neighborhood in the city, originated from the Portuguese colonial settlement Feliz Lusitânia and the construction of the wooden fortress Forte do Presépio, at the mouth of the Piry creek, by Portuguese Captain-Mor Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, on January 12, 1616. He had the goal of occupying the Conquista do Pará in the then Captaincy of Maranhão, ensuring the dominance of the region and the drogas do sertão.