Marking FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia: Exhibition dedicated to Brasília, the capital city of the most celebrated football country, mounted in Moscow

In the heat of FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia, the Museum of Moscow is launching an exhibition which gives insight into the history of the capital city of the most celebrated football country. The project about the city of Brasília, which so far has attracted over 300 000 visitors in 7 countries of the world, is now on display in Moscow until July 31.

The exhibition is also timed to 190th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Brazil and Russia and is mounted with the support of the Ministry of Tourism of Brazil, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Brazil and the Embassy of Brazil in Moscow.

Almost 60 years ago Brazil got a new capital city – a unique city of Brasília, which was specially designed and built within just 4 years. Brasília’s inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List took place in 1987.

The exhibition «Brasília: From Utopia to Capital» showcases over 300 exhibits: photographs, audio and visual materials, maps, models and sculptures from public and private collections. The exhibition focuses on the key figures who contributed to the city construction: Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek, urban planner Lúcio Costa, architect Oscar Niemeyer and others.

The exhibition displays rare photographs, which captured the emergence and present-day Brasília. For example, Peter Scheider’s photographs show the way of life in Brasília in the 1960s, photographs by Marcel Gautherot portray the workers who built the city, while the modern project «On the wings of Brasília» will present the aerial view of the city.

«Collection Brasília» focuses on the construction of the city and includes works by prominent artists, drawings, commemorative coins and sculptures.

Specially for the exhibition’s launch in Moscow a bilingual catalogue in Portuguese and Russian has been published.