The Aloisio Magalhães Museum of Modern Art – MAMAM – is housed in a building constructed in the mid-19th century to house the International Club of Recife (Brazil), and for several decades of the following century – from the 1930s to the 1960s – it was also used as the headquarters of Recife City Hall. Its transformation into an art space did not occur until 1981, with the creation of the Recife Metropolitan Art Gallery, which the following year became home to the Aloísio Magalhães Metropolitan Art Gallery, in honor of the Pernambuco plastic artist, designer and cultural administrator who died in 1982. In 1997, the main building was renovated and turned into a museum.
Since its early years, MAMAM has held exhibitions with renowned artists from different backgrounds-local, national and international-and of different artistic orientations, allowing the public to come into contact with the rich diversity that characterizes modern and contemporary production. Aiming to become a reference center for modern and contemporary production in the visual arts, MAMAM, through dissemination, documentation and reflection on contemporary art and its historical references, has contributed to the cultural formation of the public and the consolidation of Recife’s institutional and artistic environments.
MAMAM has 3 floors-with 7 exhibition rooms-as well as the Oiticica Aquarium-a space dedicated to small-scale special projects, the Auditorium and Indoor Patio, specializing in modern and contemporary art, the Library, and the Technical Reserve-Collection. It currently has nearly 100 works from the collection, described in audio, intended for audiences with visual impairment or low vision.
