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Your AI tour guide for the Museu Oscar Niemeyer

Photograph a work in the Museu Oscar Niemeyer and Lensmark tells you who made it, when, and why it matters, with every fact linked to its source.

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Museu Oscar Niemeyer

Curitiba, Brazil

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Take a photo and read the work's sourced story

Illustrative photo demo

Illustrative collection

  1. Take a permitted photo Use a photo allowed by the museum's current rules.
  2. Read the sourced history When Lensmark can verify the work, it explains what the sources support and links to them. When it cannot, it says so plainly.
  3. Ask a follow-up Continue with a question about the work's maker, age or significance.
  4. Your Museu Oscar Niemeyer walk saves itself. Just take pictures. Each work is kept with its sourced history, grouped by day.

The demo uses the class illustration of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, with landmark photographs in the illustrative collection. These images do not depict Museu Oscar Niemeyer works.

What the Museu Oscar Niemeyer collection covers

The Museu Oscar Niemeyer brings Brazilian visual art together with Asian and African collections in Curitiba. Known as MON and Museu do Olho, the museum also holds architecture and design material, from models and drawings to furniture and textiles. Collection

Opened in 2002 in a complex designed by Oscar Niemeyer, MON preserves works from the Novo Museu, Museu de Arte do Paraná and BANESTADO gallery collections. Later gifts expanded its scope, including Poty Lazzarotto's drawings and prints and the Asian collection donated by diplomat Fausto Godoy in 2018.

Its collection strengths include Brazilian visual art and the Poty Lazzarotto collection, Asian art, African art, and architecture and design.

  • Jogadores no bar

    Date
    1991

    Poty made this lithograph on paper in 1991. The museum's collection-page entry gives its dimensions as 36 by 29 centimetres, placing it among the prints and drawings that preserve the Curitiba artist's work.

    Read the museum record
  • Lakshmi com elefantes

    Date
    17th–18th centuries

    The museum attributes this Indian work to the Basholi (Pahari) school. Its Asia collection entry dates the water-based paint and gilding on paper to the seventeenth–eighteenth centuries and names no individual artist.

    Read the museum record
  • Buda Bhumisparsha

    Date
    Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

    This bronze Buddha is identified as Sino-Tibetan in the museum's Asia collection entry. The entry calls its posture Bhumisparsha Mudra and places it in the Ming dynasty, 1368–1644, without naming its maker.

    Read the museum record

These are collection records, not confirmation that the works are on display today.

Check the photography rules first

MON permits photos without flash, subject to restrictions on particular works or spaces. Tripods and recording equipment require prior authorization; drones require express museum authorization and compliance with aviation and communications rules, including outside and around the building. Press or media photos and recordings need written Communications authorization, while commercial or advertising shoots need written Events authorization; wedding, graduation and similar album photography is not allowed inside. Read the current visitor photography rules and museum guidance, and follow gallery signs before taking a photo.

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