The insurgency of museums in the media in recent years has brought into question the social and educational role of these places. This dissertation discusses the relationship between these institutions and the history teaching, having as a concern the marks of the coloniality of power and of knowledge that cause silences, exclusions and asymmetries. Within the project of western modernity, colonial power imposes European rationality and values as the only benchmarks accepted for the achievement of civilization and progress. In this scenario, decolonial pedagogy appears as a booster of the need to emerge new ways of thinking, other perspectives, in order to project intercultural alternatives. To analyze these questions, we use the little investigated Historical Museum of the City of Rio de Janeiro (MHCRJ), its constitution, construction of the collection and the most recent exhibitions. It pursued to explore the circulating narratives of space and the possibility of building others from the photographs of the latest exhibitions assembled through their own collection: The Multiple Views of Augusto Malta and Images of the Eighteenth Century. The urban reforms of Rio de Janeiro, the disputed urban projects and their social implications were the themes raised to problematize the projected image of the city, its current state and the construction of historical knowledge. Therefore, this work bets on a teaching of intercultural history within the history museums, in order to promote encounters with the different and the expansion of world views and readings.