Sculpture Garden

New works arrive at the MAM São Paulo Sculpture Garden

An installation by Amelia Toledo, recently integrated into the collection, and temporary works by Alexandre Brandão, DetanicoLain, Frida Baranek and Raphael Escobar are the new...

history lab

In contrast to archaic visions of our past, the new Ipiranga Museum celebrates material culture, with a project that includes tactile resources and massive use of audiovisual By Maria HirSzman
Color image. Alessandra Munduruku, one of the main indigenous leaders in Brazil, during the II March of Indigenous Women: Reforestation, Bodies and Hearts for the healing of the earth. Brasília, 2021. Photo: Edgar Kanaykõ Xakriabá

The painful learning of museums

By reversing its censorship of MST works, Masp recognizes the crossroads of reality
Color image, horizontal. Photograph of the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, one of the museums affected by the measures of the Federal government

Largest Brazilian museums are being asphyxiated by Bolsonaro

With the shelving of the annual plans of institutions and with aggressive changes to the Rouanet Law, the federal government lashes out at renowned museums

Fabio Szwarcwald talks about his resignation from the executive board...

Last Tuesday, the 1st, Fabio Szwarcwald's resignation from the board of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio took many...
Arch in the Pátio dos Canhões do Museu Histórico Nacional. Photo: Alessandra Sant'Anna/Wikimedia Commnos

Monarchists advance in national museology

With alliances in the Bolsonaro government, Monarchists try to interfere in the organization of national museums and protection of heritage, their latest act has generated concern among employees.

Extremist Crusade: How Cultural Denialism Works in Museums

In actions by Ibram and Iphan, bolsonarismo invests against the most important Afro-religious collection in the country, under the custody of the Museum of the Republic, in Rio, and threatens to disrupt the entire National Museum System
Luz Station, headquarters of the Portuguese Language Museum. Photo: Joca Duarte / Publicity

Revamped, Language Museum is reborn in downtown São Paulo

About five years after the fire that hit its headquarters, at Estação da Luz, the institution reopens in 2021 with updates to its contents, but keeping as a basis the same curatorial project that made it recognized   
Portuguese Language Museum: Overview of the exhibition "Língua Solta", in the foreground "Olha minha lingua", by Alex dos Santos. Photo: Ciete Silverio / Publicity.

Words in the world of things 

First exhibition open at the Portuguese Language Museum, Língua Solta is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Fabiana Moraes and brings contemporary art works into dialogue with objects, posters and other elements of everyday life.

National Museum Week seeks to reimagine the future of Brazilian institutions

With the theme "The future of museums: recovering and reimagining", the event brings extensive virtual programming, involving the entire country, and seeks to dialogue with technological advances to understand how they affect our way of being and being in the world.