Museu de Arte de Brasília, Modern art museum in Plano Piloto, Brazil

The Museu de Arte de Brasília is a modern art museum in the city's planned core, housing paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations. The collection brings together works from different decades that offer insight into Brazilian artistic creation.

The building was constructed between 1960 and 1961 by Novacap and first housed a restaurant, a bar, a nightclub, the Armed Forces Club and the Casarão do Samba. In 1985 the Secretariat of Education and Culture of the Federal District created the museum there, opening it in March with about two hundred donated modern and contemporary works, including pieces by Tomie Ohtake and Arcangelo Ianelli. Closed in 2007 on a Public Prosecutor's Office recommendation, with the collection moved to the Museu Nacional da República, it reopened on 29 May 2021 after a renovation costing an estimated R$ 7.6 million.

The museum's collection began with works gathered from the Federal District's culture secretariat, drawn from salons and donations, dating from the 1950s onward. It includes paintings, engravings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, objects and installations by artists such as Tarsila do Amaral, Alfredo Volpi, Tomie Ohtake, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Pape and Roberto Burle Marx. The building previously housed a restaurant, a nightclub, the Armed Forces Club and the Casarão do Samba.

The museum stands in the Plano Piloto, near the city's central axis, and reopened on 29 May 2021 after a renovation completed on 21 April 2021. The building is reached by car or bus along the surrounding avenues; visitors should confirm current opening days before travelling, as the museum was closed from 2007 until 2021.

The building itself is a work of modern architecture, designed as part of Brasília's vision for a contemporary capital. Its forms and integration into the urban landscape make it much more than just a container for artworks.