Violinist Arminda Neves d’Almeida and composer Heitor Villa-Lobos visiting the maquette of MAM Rio, alongside Jayme Maurício and Carlos Flexa Ribeiro, 30 August 957. Photograph: unidentified author
Deputy Jânio Quadros alongside Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Niomar Moniz Sodré during a visit to the maquette of MAM Rio, 24 February 1959. Photograph: Kurt Klagsbrunn, Judith Munk
Architects Marcelo Roberto and Oscar Niemeyer with journalist Jayme Maurício visiting the maquette of MAM Rio, 15 March 1957. Photograph: unidentified author
Actress Dorothy Malone, her parents, and actor Jacques Bergerac visiting MAM Rio, accompanied by Ruy Pereira da Silva and Mathilde Pereira de Souza, 15 September 1958. Photograph: unidentified author
Dancers Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch visiting the construction site of MAM Rio, 4 June 1958. Photograph: unidentified author
President of the Republic Juscelino Kubitschek alongside Niomar Moniz Sodré, Jayme Maurício and the artist Georges Mathieu, 13 November 1959. Photograph: Foto Carlos
Dancer Margot Fonteyn and her husband, Roberto Arias, Ambassador of Panama, visiting MAM Rio, 4 July 1958. Photograph: unidentified author
Set designer Felix Labisse, artists Lygia Clark, Zélia Salgado and Anita Malfatti, and journalist Jayme Maurício visiting the MAM Rio construction site, 16 August 1957. Photograph: unidentified author
Entrepreneur and chemical engineer Regine Feigl visiting the MAM Rio construction site, 1957. In the image: Nelson Faria Baptista, Niomar Moniz Sodré, Regina Feigl, Jayme Maurício, Francisco Negrão de Lima, Mário Pedrosa and Henrique E. Mindlin. Photograph: unidentified author
Architect Mies van der Rohe visiting the construction site, with his assistant on his right and Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Renato Ferreira de Sá on his left, 1957. Photograph: unidentified author
Carmen Portinho and Le Corbusier during lunch in his honour, 13 December 1962. Photograph: unidentified author
Artist Djanira next to writer Aldous Huxley during their visit to MAM Rio, 6 August 1958. Photograph: unidentified author
Nelson Rockefeller visiting the construction site of MAM Rio, accompanied by Niomar Moniz Sodré and Antonio Moniz Sodré, 20 November 1958. Photograph: German Lorca
Visit to MAM Rio’s construction site by the Brasília jury and directors of the Companhia na Nova Capital, 15 March 1957. In the image: Jayme Maurício, William Holford, Carmen Portinho, Niomar Moniz Sodré, Ernesto Silva, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Marcelo Roberto, Henrique E. Mindlin, José Faria, André Sive and João Carlos Vital, 15 March 1957. Photograph: unidentified author
Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi during their visit to MAM Rio’s construction site, accompanied by Niomar Moniz Sodré and Jayme Maurício, in the 1950s. Photograph: unidentified author
Actress Cacilda Becker next to the floor plan of the MAM Rio Theater during a visit by the theatrical class and opening of the MAM Rio bar, March 1958. Photograph: unidentified author
The mayor of the Federal District, Francisco Negrão de Lima, wearing a hat, visiting the construction site, alongside MAM Rio advisor Paulo Carneiro, 9 January 1957. Photograph: unidentified author