INHOTIM: AN UNUSUAL BOTANICAL GARDEN

Abstract

I visited the historic towns of Minas Gerais State in January 2016, as well as, with special interest, in Brumadinho, location of the Inhotim Museum Institute and Botanical Garden.

The Inhotim Institute is located at the banks of the Paraopeba River, in the southern metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte City (BH). It is a private property with 140 hectares of visitation area, which houses a botanical garden and a museum of contemporary art. The museum is the opposite of all rules of the conventional ones and it is distributed in several pavilions scattered around the property, acclimatised by the mysterious and beautiful local landscape that almost always awakens in the middle of a mist curtain, which only dissipates around midday.