Museu da Cidade, Museum and heritage site at Praça dos Três Poderes, Brasília, Brazil

The Museu da Cidade, also called Museu Histórico de Brasília, is a concrete monument by Oscar Niemeyer on Praça dos Três Poderes: a longitudinal block resting off-axis on a cube, with white marble-clad walls bearing historical phrases. On the east facade a large sculpture of Juscelino Kubitschek's head by José Alves Pedroza stands beside a dedication from the pioneers and candangos; the west facade carries a chronology of the capital's interiorization from 1789 to 1960. A small side entrance leads inside, where 16 engraved texts are transcribed in Braille and English on pedestals.

The Museu Histórico de Brasília, the city's oldest museum, was inaugurated at 12:30 on 21 April 1960, the same day as Brasília itself, with President Juscelino Kubitschek present; the ceremony marked the official transfer of the federal capital from Rio de Janeiro. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built in the 1950s in reinforced concrete, it was conceived to preserve the record of the capital's construction. At the inauguration Guilherme de Almeida read his poem "Prece Natalícia de Brasília".

The museum's walls carry 16 engraved texts on the interiorization of Brazil's capital, from the mid-18th century to the 1960 inauguration, transcribed in Braille and English on pedestals below. The east facade bears a large sculpture of Juscelino Kubitschek's head by José Alves Pedroza, with a dedication from the pioneers and candangos.

The museum is part of the Centro Cultural Três Poderes on Praça dos Três Poderes and is open Tuesday to Sunday, holidays included, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Access to the interior is through a small entrance on the side of the building. A tactile model is available for visitors with visual impairments.

The east facade carries a large sculpture of Juscelino Kubitschek's head by José Alves Pedroza, with a dedication from the pioneers and candangos beside it. Above it is a phrase JK wrote on 2 October 1956, when he first visited the site of the future capital.