About MON

The Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON) is state heritage site, linked to the State Secretary for Social Communication and Culture of Paraná. Inaugurated on November 22, 2002, it is housed in iconic buildings designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

With over 15 exhibition spaces, around 20 exhibitions are held each year, which attract an average audience of 360,000 people.

At the opening ceremony of the Museum, Niemeyer noted his joy with the building, saying he was as moved as he was on the occasion of the inauguration of the works in Brasília. That day, the architect declared: “it is an architecture that is different from everything you have seen before. Made up entirely of audacity, technique and fantasy”.

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In total, the MON collection has approximately 14,000 artworks, housed in a space of more than 35,000 square meters, with 17,000 square meters of exhibition spaces, making it the largest art museum in Latin America.

The collection is comprised of works by artists like Poty Lazzarotto, Alfredo Andersen, João Turin, Theodoro De Bona, Miguel Bakun, Guido Viaro, Helena Wong, Tarsila do Amaral, Cândido Portinari, Oscar Niemeyer, Ianelli, Caribé, Tomie Ohtake, Andy Warhol, Di Cavalcanti, Francisco Brennand, among others, as well as of pieces of Asian and African art.

The works are kept in the Collection Storage and in the Conservation and Restoration Laboratory, where they are stored following international museological criteria.

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MON is considered a reference in visual arts in Brazil and in the world. In recent years, it has hosted exhibitions by important artists, such as:

OSGEMEOS;
Ai Weiwei;
Tony Cragg and ManRay;
Screen prints by Hungarian artist Victor Vasarely;
Paintings by Tarsila do Amaral, Di Cavalcanti, Alfredo Andersen and Amedeo Modigliani;
Sculptures by Degas and Sergio Camargo;
Print works by Francisco Goya, Picasso and Escher;
Photographs by Haruo Ohara, Sebastião Salgado, Roger Ballen, Brassaï and Frida Kahlo;
Contemporary works by Beatriz Milhazes, Nuno Ramos and Leda Catunda;
As well as productions by artists from Paraná, such as Paulo Leminski and João Turin, etc.;
Works by Regina Silveira and Luiz Sacilotto, paintings by the surrealist Cuban Wifredo Lam, the centenary of architect Vilanova Artigas, Gonçalo Ivo, Campana Brothers, Masao Yamamoto, Juliana Stein, the Curitiba International Biennial, among others.