Museu Felícia Leirner, Art museum in Campos do Jordão, Brazil.
Museu Felícia Leirner is an open-air museum in Campos do Jordão, set in about 35,000 square metres of Atlantic Forest remnant. Its collection comprises 86 sculptures by Felícia Leirner: 44 in bronze, 39 in white cement, 2 in granite and 1 in plaster. A circuit of paths leads visitors among the works and the vegetation.
Felícia Leirner, born in Warsaw in 1904, moved to Brazil in 1927 and settled in Campos do Jordão after the 1962 death of her companion Isai Leirner. The museum opened on the site in 1978, and she worked until 1982 to expand its collection. It was officially established in 2001, and ACAM Portinari has managed it since 2010.
The name honors the sculptor whose works fill the grounds, reflecting her long career and artistic journey. Visitors walk among pieces that represent different stages of her creative life and artistic thinking.
The 35,000-square-metre grounds are explored on foot along paths that link the sculptures and the surrounding Atlantic Forest. Free parking is available, including spaces for visitors with disabilities. Educational guides accompany spontaneous visitors and booked groups; the Claudio Santoro Auditorium next door has ramps, a wheelchair lift and adapted restrooms.
The collection holds 86 sculptures: 44 in bronze, 39 in white cement, 2 in granite and 1 in plaster. They are grouped into five phases, from Figurative (1950–1958) to Recortes na paisagem (1980–1982), the last completed in 1982. In 2009–2010 restorer Júlio Moraes renewed the cement pieces and replaced the brick bases of the bronzes with exposed concrete.
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