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Portuguese Language Museum or Luz da Nossa Language Station is an interactive museum about the Portuguese language located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil in the historic Estação da Luz building, in the Bairro da Luz, designed by the São Paulo Department of Culture in conjunction with the Roberto Foundation. Marine, with a budget of around 37 million reais (14.5 million euros).
The purpose of the museum is to create a living space on the Portuguese language, considered as the basis of Brazilian culture, where it is possible to surprise visitors with the unusual and often unknown aspects of their mother tongue. According to the museum's organizers, "it is desired that, in the museum, this public have access to new knowledge and reflections, in an intense and pleasant way." The museum's main target is the average of the Brazilian population, made up of people from the most varied regions and social groups of the country, but who have not had the opportunity to get a clearer and more accurate idea about the origins, history and evolution. continuous language
The museum occupies three floors of the 4,333 m² Light Station. Creation of the Brazilian architect Rafic Farah, right in the entrance is the so-called "Tree of Language", a sculpture with three floors high in which leaves appear outlines of objects and the roots are formed by words that gave rise to Portuguese. The tree can be visualized when the visitor uses the elevator access to the other floors with transparent walls.
The auditorium has a screen of nine meters wide, where is presented a short film, created by Antonio Risério and directed by Tadeu Jungle, about the emergence, history, diversity, and the importance of languages for humanity. The screen turns out to be a large swinging door to the "Language Square".
Considered one of the most entertaining spaces of the permanent exhibition, where visitors have fun moving images containing word fragments, which include suffixes, prefixes and radicals, forming a curious game that aims to form complete words. When the goal is reached, the projection table becomes a futuristic screen that shows animations and movies about the origin and meaning of the word formed. Created by Marcelo Tas with the support of etymologist Mário Viaro, art director Liana Brazil and technology director Russ Rive.
A large interactive screen that shows the Brazilian speakers, where you can navigate the map and access audios with samples of the speech of Brazilians from the states of the Federation. On the museum's website you can access these audios.
Remembering an amphitheater with stands, is a planetarium of words in which visual effects are projected on the ceiling and a floor that becomes bright. On screen are presented the great classics of prose and poetry in sounds and images, having as themes love, exile, people, slum and music, accompanied by images created by Eduardo Menezes, Guilherme Specht and André Wissenbach, with artistic direction by Marcello Dantas and music and sound production by Cacá Machado.
The selection, which brings together poetry by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Gregório de Matos, Fernando Pessoa and Luís de Camões, texts by Guimarães Rosa, Euclides da Cunha and Machado de Assis and songs by Noel Rosa and Vinícius de Moraes, was prepared by literature and musicians José Miguel Wisnik and Arthur Nestrovski.
The full presentation has three versions of twenty minutes each, which occur alternately. The selected narrators are Arnaldo Antunes, Bete Coelho, Chico Buarque, Juca de Oliveira, Maria Bethânia, Paulo Jose, Zélia Duncan, among others selected for the beauty of the voice.
A selection of 120 great works of Brazilian literature, chosen by Alfredo Bosi, complement the historical exposition of the language.
Schedule:
monday Closed
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
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