Museum of Modern Art in Caracas | |
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Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas Museu de Arte Moderna de Caracas |
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Model of Museum of Modern Art in Caracas
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General information | |
Status | Never completed |
Architectural style | Modernist |
Town or city | Caracas |
Country | Venezuela |
Coordinates | 10°28′50″N 66°52′22″W / 10.4805353°N 66.8728497°W |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 4 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Oscar Niemeyer |
The Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (Portuguese: Museu de Arte Moderna de Caracas, also Museu de Arte Moderna em Caracas, Spanish: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas) was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling. It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized.