Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR)
Two joined buildings on Praça Mauá under a wave-shaped roof, showing art and the history of Rio.
The Museu de Arte do Rio occupies two very different buildings on Praça Mauá, in the redeveloped port district beside Guanabara Bay. One is the eclectic Palacete Dom João VI of 1916; the other a former bus terminal in modernist idiom. Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura linked them with a raised walkway and crowned the pair with a single undulating concrete canopy, a shape widely read as a wave. The museum opened on 1 March 2013 as the first of the area's new cultural institutions.
Exhibitions fill the palace's upper floors and trace the art, images and social history of Rio de Janeiro, drawing on a collection of more than twenty thousand items that ranges from colonial painting and photography to contemporary work by artists from the city's outer districts. The neighbouring building houses the Escola do Olhar, a teacher-training and education centre. A terrace beneath the canopy gives views over the square, the bay and the surrounding docklands.
Highlights
- Undulating concrete canopy linking a 1916 palace and a former bus terminal
- Collection of over 20,000 works on the art and history of Rio
- Escola do Olhar education and teacher-training centre next door
- Terrace with views over Praça Mauá and Guanabara Bay
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