MAM Rio: Origin and Construction

Table 6: The Foundations

Preparations for the construction in 1954 

1. Letter from Companhia Industrial Santa Fé (Santa Fé Industrial Company) sent to MAM Rio, referring to the donation of land for the construction of the museum’s building, 14 July 1954.
   
   
2. Séde para o Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Site of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro), text by unidentified author published in the MAM Rio bulletin, January 1953.
   
   
3. Aprovada pelo prefeito a demarcação do terreno para a sede do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Approved by the Mayor the Demarcation of Land for the Permanent Site of the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro), text by unidentified author published in the MAM Rio bulletin, May 1953.
   
   
4. Sôbre a construção da sede do M.A.M. (On the construction of the M.A.M. building), interview with engineer Carmen Portinho published in the MAM Rio bulletin, 1955.
   
   
5. Registration form of the Department of Real Estate Income of the Municipality of the Federal District regarding the title and ownership of the land assigned to MAM Rio, 1950s.
   
   
6. Dismantling of the Morro Santo Antônio, circa 1954.
   Photograph: unidentified author
   
   
7. Trucks transporting debris from the dismantling of the Morro Santo Antônio to the construction site, [1954].
   Photograph: unidentified author
   
   
8. Debris from the Morro Santo Antônio unloaded on the MAM Rio site, 1955.
   Photograph: unidentified author
   
   
9. Board of MAM Rio with members of the Chamber of the Federal District, visiting to commemorate the donation term for the museum plot, 15 October 1956. In the image: Ary de Almeida Costa, Telêmaco Gonçalves Maia, Gama Filho, João Carlos Vital , Mário Piragibe, Aloysio de Salles, Nelson Faria Baptista, Niomar Moniz Sodré, Henrique E. Mindlin, Salomão Filho, Pedro Alves Faria, Alexandrino Mendes Soares and Domingos D’Angelo.
   Photograph: unidentified author
   
   
10. Piling machines with the Pão de Açúcar in the background, 1955.
    Photograph: unidentified author
    
    
11. View of the land demarcated for construction, 1955.
    Photograph: unidentified author
    
    
12. President of the Republic João Fernandes Campos Café Filho and Minister Candido Motta Filho deposit the time capsule beneath the ground, alongside the master builder, Mr. Magalhães, during the inauguration ceremony of the foundations, 19 December 1954.
    Photograph: unidentified author
    
    
13. Piling machines and the sign for the Estacas Franki Ltda. company, March 1955.
    Photograph: unidentified author
    
    
14. Construction office, January 1955.
    Photograph: unidentified author
    
    
15. Niomar Moniz Sodré signing the minutes of the ceremony that commemorated the inauguration of the foundations, December 1954.
    Photograph: unidentified author

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