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.
The problem with Belo Horizonte is that the cultural and artistic offer is really dense, just like the big European capitals. Travellers only stay a short time in Belo Horizonte and it therefore often seems wise for culture lovers to make choices before going to the capital of Minas. If you have to visit only one, this museum is the one to check out. Housed in an eclectic building erected by José de Magalhães (like its neighbour, the Museu das Minas e do Metal), this building was inaugurated in 1897 as the State Secretariat of Fazendas. It summarizes in 31 rooms the identity of the Mineira and the history of a people born from the mixing of white European settlers, black slaves deported from Africa and Brazilian Amerindians. One can discover the rural interior of the state so well described by the writer Guimarães Rosa through the works of Drummond and the "neo arte" of Lygia Clark. There is 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 rather long documentary film that takes shape through the projection of animated faces on relief sculptures. Thus the White, the Black and the Indian take turns to explain the origin of each people, their cultures and traditions. Fascinating.
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