Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Art museum in Curitiba, Brazil.
The Oscar Niemeyer Museum is an art museum in Curitiba, Brazil, with two buildings linked by an underground passage on a large plot. The eye-shaped annex made of concrete and glass sits above a shallow water basin and appears to float.
The first structure rose in 1967 as an education institute, before Niemeyer expanded the site with the striking annex decades later. The reopening as a museum took place in 2002 and set new standards for cultural buildings in the region.
The name honors the Brazilian architect who designed both structures and whose style appears throughout the grounds. Visitors find mostly works from South America, while art classes on the ground floor regularly draw young students.
The museum is temporarily closed at the moment, so checking for updates before visiting makes sense. The entrance to the main building sits on the north side, while the annex remains accessible through the underground passage.
The underground passage links both structures beneath open ground and saves space for green areas on the surface. Some visitors only notice when leaving the first building that they entered the second one without stepping outside.
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