Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói
Saucer-shaped clifftop museum by Oscar Niemeyer, ringed by a reflecting pool over Guanabara Bay.
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This guide to the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói traces back to 1996, when a local sub-mayor persuaded a landowner that the clifftop plot beneath this museum was worthless, then watched land values around it soar once Oscar Niemeyer's design was rushed through city council in two days. It follows three local politicians who held onto that same parcel through construction and sold it back at a striking profit. Niterói residents still bring the story up around Christmastime.
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