My wife and I are not huge museum-goers, but this museum really stood out as a world-class museum worth seeing in Belem, and especially exciting since it is free. It is clean, modern-- sparkling, even-- with lots of interesting art (and some that is not that interesting, but all museums suffer from this problem). Definitely a highlight of our trip.

If you love art, you can't miss it!
just nearby jeronimos, this is one of my favorite places for art, always with new exhibitions and collections.
Don't miss it!!

I have really enjoyed visiting this museum which has a huge variety of modern art works. The collection is not as big as, say the Tate Modern's in London, but definitely big enough to spend a couple of hours there. The instructions/narratives are in both English and Portuguese and works are grouped by decade/chronologically. It's in the CCB, a building from the nineties that is interesting to check out anyway. At the entrance and on the outside there are a few interactive installations which you will find fun if you're into that kind of thing. To make things better, entrance is free.

The Berado collection offers a huge variety of modern art through the decades. As somewhat of a novice, I found the written narratives very informative as they offered information about how and why art evolved at that time in history and a little detail into the lives and works of some of the artists. Of course the Picasso painting is wonderful and the Warhol fabulous but there are numerous paintings and photographs to enjoy. Oursler's multimedia and installation exhibition was particularly fascinating although disturbing and kept me shocked and intrigued for quite a while. An afternoon well spent, our money not!