Brazil's Museums And Cultural Centers

On October 12, 1989, the Banco do Brasil—founded in 1808 as the country's first bank—started to invest in culture by setting up its first cultural center in a 1906 building in downtown Rio de Janeiro.

On October 11, 2000, the federal capital Brasília became the second city in Brazil to benefit from a Banco do Brasil Cultural Center. The museum is housed in the Presidente Tancredo Neves building, which was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the late 1980s.

The exhibit shows a panel of the facade of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. In 2017, the work was part of the O Triunfo da Cor (The Triumph of Color) exhibition, which displayed 75 works by 22 Post-impressionist artists, including the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, and French painters Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, and Matisse.

On December 19, 2015, the Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã) opened its doors for the first time. It is housed in a slender building, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, in Rio de Janeiro's port area.

The Museum of Tomorrow aims to raise public awareness about the power of human action to transform the world, while also alerting visitors to the importance of sustainability and relationships as essential values in ensuring that civilization can survive.

The Soccer Museum (Museu do Futebol) opened on September 29, 2008, beneath the stands of the Paulo Machado de Carvalho Municipal Stadium, better known as the Pacaembu Stadium, in São Paulo.

With an archive of over 200,000 items including videos, films, photographs, and image and sound equipment, the museum also offers cultural events for all audiences, including cinema, dance, music, and photography.

Founded on December 24, 1905, by the São Paulo government, the São Paulo Pinacoteca is the state's oldest museum.

The Pinacoteca is housed in a building designed by the architect Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo and built in 1900, in the Jardim da Luz park in downtown São Paulo.

It started out with an archive of just 26 canvases, but now has over 10,000 items categorized into sections such as painting, design, sculpture, and photography.

Considered to be the most important museum in Latin America, the Assis Chateaubriand São Paulo Art Museum was designed by the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. As well as being a milestone in Brazilian modern architecture, the building houses the most important European collection in the southern hemisphere.

An exhibit from the permanent collection Acervo em Transformação (Picture Gallery in Transformation), which once again used the museum's iconic glass easels—a Lina Bo Bardi design made from concrete bases and transparent glass plates.

Staircase inside MAM-BA, which was designed by Lina Bo Bardi at Solar do Unhão, in Salvador (BA)

Detail of the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói (RJ).

Instituto Inhotim, in Brumadinho (MG), one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Brazil.

Sculptures at the Oficina Cerâmica Francisco Brennand, an art museum located in Recife.

Facade of the MON (Oscar Niemeyer Museum) in Curitiba.

Work exhibited at the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre (RS).