Inhotim, Botanical garden and sculpture center in Brumadinho, Brazil

Inhotim is a contemporary art museum and botanical garden in Brumadinho, Brazil, with a visiting area of 96.87 hectares that includes gardens, galleries, buildings, forest fragments and five ornamental lakes covering about 3.5 hectares. A winding path curves around the main lake, connecting white-roofed pavilions set among forested hillsides. The gardens hold around 4,300 cultivated species, including some 1,500 catalogued palms.

Bernardo Paz, a mining and steel entrepreneur, began buying land around his farm in the 1980s and turned the property into an open-air museum. The non-profit Instituto Inhotim was founded in 2002 and opened to the public in 2006. In 2021 and 2022 Paz donated the grounds, galleries, pavilions and 330 artworks to the institution.

The name comes from the Mineiro pronunciation of "Nhô Tim", after an English engineer called Timothy who once ran the farm here. Visitors can sit on 98 benches carved by Hugo França from fallen pequi-vinagreiro trunks, the first placed in 1990 under a tamboril tree. The gardens hold about 1,500 catalogued palm species, the largest such collection in the world.

The institute sits roughly 37 miles (60 kilometers) from Belo Horizonte and opens Wednesday through Sunday. Visitors planning to explore the full site should bring comfortable shoes, as paths between galleries can cover several miles.

One of the galleries has no walls and consists only of a roof that filters rain and sun while the work beneath remains visible. The Equatorial Greenhouse holds rare plants including the Carrion flower, which bloomed here for the first time in 2010.