Oscar Niemeyer Museum
| Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON) | |
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| place | Rua Marechal Hermes, 999 - Centro Cívico Curitiba , Paraná Brazil 
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| Construction year | 2002 |
| Coordinates | 25 ° 24 ′ 35 " S , 49 ° 16 ′ 2" W |
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| www.museuoscarniemeyer.org.br | |
The Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON) is an art museum in Curitiba .
The complex consists of two buildings on a 35,000 m² site, 19,000 m² of which are used as exhibition space. The large exhibition hall (grande salão de exposições) has a floor space of 40 × 60 meters and a height of 14 meters. It was opened in 2002 under the name Novo Museu (New Museum); the following year, with the inauguration of the extension, it was renamed Museu Oscar Niemeyer in honor of the architect who completed this project at the age of 95.
Oscar Niemeyer created the first draft for it in 1967, initially as an educational institution.
It is popularly called Museu do Olho (eye). Between 2003 and 2015, more than 2.6 million visitors visited MON.
literature
- Lauro Cavalcanti, Maria José Justino, Paulo Herkenhoff: Museu Oscar Niemeyer . Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba 2008, ISBN 978-85-60638-05-5 (Portuguese, English, covers the years 2003 to 2007).
Web links
Commons : Museu Oscar Niemeyer - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Museu Oscar Niemeyer. Fundação Oscar Niemeyer, accessed March 17, 2016 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Tecnicalc: Museu Oscar Niemeyer .