Inside of Museum (Image: Pedro Teixeira/O GLobo)
Contrary to the prophecy of Cazuza (Brazilian Musician), the Museum of Tomorrow presents the visitor, not a repetition of the past, but a glimpse of what we can become, a world full of new features and possibilities. Who returns to the newly renovated Praça Mauá, in the center of Rio de Janeiro, initially has a shock. The space was returned to locals and visitors with the Porto Maravilha project, which, among other things, promoted the demolition of the Perimeter, a high road considered by some a true act of architectural terrorism against the Marvelous City. With the high withdrawal, the visitor is faced with a pulsating Mauá Square and renewed offering, right away, a breathtaking view of Guanabara Bay, Rio-Niteroi Bridge and the neighboring city of Niteroi. The visitors have also the opportunity to enjoy one of the buildings that definitely is, without exaggeration, consolidating itself as one of the most beautiful architectural designs of museums on the planet.
Museum with the monastery of St. Benedict in the background (Photo: Reproduction / TV Globo)
Designed by Santiago Calatrava, acclaimed Spanish architect, the Museum of Tomorrow is the scene of a disturbing engineering challenge. Calatrava designed the project inspired by bromeliads of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, with balance sheet spans over 70 meters. No curve on the right is equal to the same part of the building on the left. This required a large study before making the forms. Another great detail of the project is its mobile coverage moves to the pickup of solar energy.
The Mauá Square today has an interesting architectural ensemble consists of the Museum of Tomorrow, the Monastery of St. Benedict, the first skyscraper in Latin America, building "A noite", and the Rio Art Museum (MAR).
View of Guanabara Bay, inside the museum (Image: Livia Teixeira / G1)
Vista da Baía da Guanabara, dentro do museu (Imagem: Livia Teixeira/G1)
Calatrava approached Oscar Niemeyer in the MAC project in Niteroi, to integrate so as harmonious its architecture with features like water mirrors and the bay scenery as backdrop of its forms and landscape project signed by the renowned Burle Marx office.
Exhibition at the Museum of Tomorrow (Picture Bernard Lessa / Museum of Tomorrow)
The Museum of Tomorrow has fixed and temporary exhibitions. The purpose of the main exposure is to create discomfort in visitor with questions about what will be our future. To this end, the Museum has a number of interactive and audiovisual resources, unusual in other museums in the city, offering a bewildering experience to the visitor.
Map of the permanent exhibition (image: internet)
Located on the second floor of the Museum, the slogan of the permanent exhibition is experimentation. In it stimulates the visitor to reflect on our future through a multimedia narrative structured into five major phases:. Cosmos, Earth, Anthropocene, Tomorrows and Us. A show of technology and audiovisual resources will take your breath away, dear reader.
The exhibition was developed with more than 30 consultants and in partnership with national and international scientific institutions such as the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Enjoy your visit to the Museum of Tomorrow and surrender to his proposal. Embark on this journey into the future. To get there, use public transportation such as buses (see the website Bus Go) or subway (Uruguaiana), Ferries (If coming from Niterói, São Gonçalo or Paqueta) or bicycle (there are bike racks and points of Bike Rio on site) . There are also large supply of taxis on site. Here are the Museum hours: Until February 21, 2016, the entrance to the Museum will be from Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 7pm; Queues are closed early enough to ensure that everyone can enter the museum until closing time. The Museum and its facilities are closed on Mondays; The museum also closes on 24, 25 and December 31, January 1 and 06, 07, 08 09 and 10 February 2016; January 2 to February 21, 2016, the café and the shop of the Museum will run from Tuesday to Sunday, from noon to 8pm; From February 23, 2016, the Museum will return to its regular hours, from 10am to 18pm, with the closing of the box to 17h. Ticket prices Whole: R $ 10.00; Half price(students): R $ 5.00; The Museum has free admission on Tuesdays; Unique Museum ticket (Tomorrow + Museum MAR): R $ 16 (full price) and R $ 8 (half-price). Forms of payment: cash and credit or debit card. Half-price People up to 21 years; Students of private schools; Students from private and public universities; Disabled people; civil servants in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro; Residents or natives of the city of Rio de Janeiro; Santander clients. gratuity Students from elementary school and middle public; Teachers of public schools and public universities; People with up to 5 years from 60 years; Employees of museums or members of ICOM with the annuity seal; tour guides; Tomorrow's neighbors. More information visit the site of the Museum by clicking here
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