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   
Exterior area of ​​MAM SP recreated in Minecraft. Photo: Leonardo Sang / Publicity.

MAM-SP launches educational project in Minecraft game

An initiative by the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art combines art, education and games, with reproductions of its space and works from the collection, and offers unique experiences to players

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
Pompidou Paraná. Solano Benítez

Solano Benítez and the reunion of the lands

Among colleagues: Pedro Mendes da Rocha's assessment Solano Benítez's project for the Brazilian headquarters of the Centre Pompidou makes us reflect on...
Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) of Curitiba

Curitiba will gain an extension of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in...

A new museum space is set to arrive in Curitiba (PR) in 2025, in the wake of an unprecedented urban innovation project: the Fábrica complex...
José Lira and Esther Hamburger - MAC USP

In the direction of MAC USP, José Lira and Esther Hamburger want...

Just over two months after taking over the management of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP) for a...

The country's largest sacred art museum, in Salvador, is closed

Museum of Sacred Art of Bahia (MAS) faces serious structural risks and its collection is threatened, warns Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).
MAC USP - interview with Ana Magalhães

Ana Magalhães takes stock of her management at MAC USP, a museum...

When Ana Gonçalves Magalhães and Marta Bogéa took over as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), in July...
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

Normal was not normal: What museums do we want after the pandemic?

It is essential to start anew, to decolonize the museum from its servile condition of the ideology of a power and of a global economy, to understand how the narratives that museums starred in, the way in which they received their audiences, as mere consumers, distorted and robbed them of the challenges of contemporaneity