Latin American Memorial Museum

The Museum-Memorial of Latin America is a rather interesting architectural complex located in the district of Barra Funda, in the state of São Paulo. The memorial, with a total area of 78,000 square meters, was designed by the famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and opened on March 18, 1989 as an anthropological cultural center.

The memorial complex contains all information about the culture of Latin America. It has a theater, a Martha Trab art gallery, a library of Vitor Sivity and a hall of Tiradentis. The hall houses a permanent collection of objects from various countries of South America, and the library contains books, magazines, newspapers, documents and videos telling about the history of Latin America. The theater hosts theater performances, conferences and other events that can be attended by up to 30,000 people at the same time.