Quartel Jaime Mota

Quartel Jaime Mota is a former military barrack located on Avenida Andrade Corvo in Praia, Cape Verde, on the highest part of the historic area of the plateau (Platô). Located next to Palácio Presidencial and the monument dedicated to Diogo Gomes. It was built in 1826 with colonial style architecture and one of the oldest in the city.

Its modern name is named after Jaime Mota, a Cape Verdean guerilla, militant of PAICV who was killed in Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau).

In the building's front, four former cannon wheels colored blue is featured along with its façade and white window panels.

History
The change of a part of the barrack to a national museum started planning in 2004. The project was started in 2012, the building will house both services of the Ministry of Defense and the military museum. The work takes in the need to preserve a historic façade and the original structure of in a horseshoe form, describes Portuguese forts of the 19th century. A street is now used as a walkway today.

Outside the building in 2012, a Soviet originated BRDM-2 armored military tank of the 1980s.

As part of the cooperation accord signed on December 2013 by the Cape Verdean and Angolan Ministers of Defence. Angola started to restore and modernize the Jaime Mota former barracks.