MEMORIAL MINAS GERAIS VALE
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Museum featuring a room with a noisy atmosphere, with a magnificent exhibition of photographs by Sebastião Salgado.
Belo Horizonte's cultural and artistic offering is as dense as that of Europe's major capitals. Travellers only stay a short time in Belo Horizonte, so it's often a good idea for culture lovers to make some choices before heading to the capital of Minas. If the visitor in a hurry has to make a choice, this is the museum to discover. Housed in an eclectic building designed by José de Magalhães (like its neighbor, the Museu das Minas e do Metal), it was inaugurated in 1897 as the State Secretariat of Fazendas (Ministry of Taxes). In 31 rooms, it sums up the Mineira identity and the history of a people born of the interbreeding of equal parts (according to researchers) of white European settlers, black slaves deported from Africa and Brazilian Amerindians. In particular, we discover the state's rural interior, so well described in the works of writers Drummond and Guimarães Rosa, or Lygia Clark's "neo arte". There's also a magnificent exhibition of photographs by Sebastião Salgado. The exhibition is interactive and quite surprising, including a room with a noisy atmosphere and objects that move by themselves! The highlight is a lengthy documentary film that takes shape through the projection of animated faces onto relief sculptures. White, black and Indian people take it in turns to explain the origins of each people, their cultures and traditions. A fascinating experience.
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