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Inhotim
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Also known as Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim

The Inhotim Institute is a Brazilian contemporary art museum. It is one of the largest outdoor art centers in Latin America. It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz in 2004 to house his personal art collection, but opened to the public a couple of years later. In 2014, the open-air museum was one of TripAdvisor's top 25 best-ranked museums in the world.

Key facts

Museum.name
Inhotim
Museum.image
250px|Instituto Inhotim (7)
Museum.caption
Inhotim
Museum.map_type
Brazil
Museum.established
2006
Museum.location
Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Museum.type
Art museum, botanical garden

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Pavilions
  • Botanical Garden
  • Management
  • Attendance
  • Gallery
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The Inhotim Institute is a Brazilian contemporary art museum. It is one of the largest outdoor art centers in Latin America. It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz in 2004 to house his personal art collection, but opened to the public a couple of years later. In 2014, the open-air museum was one of TripAdvisor's top 25 best-ranked museums in the world.

Located in Brumadinho (Minas Gerais), just 60 km away from Belo Horizonte, the institute has a total area of 1,942.25 acres, mostly located in the biome of the Atlantic Forest. Of the total area, 1,087.26 acres are marked as preservation areas, of which 359 acres are part of the Reserva Particular do Patrimônio Natural RPPN, which makes it a natural heritage site. These geographic features made it possible for Inhotim to house a botanical garden, which has been developing since it was opened.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Inhotim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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