Art of the south
The state's painters.
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The Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, MARGS, holds the largest public collection of art from Brazil's southernmost state, more than 2,600 pieces. It occupies a grand eclectic building on Praça da Alfândega, built as the federal tax office and usually credited to Theodor Wiederspahn, the architect of the city's Hotel Majestic. The state founded the museum in 1954 under the painter Ado Malagoli, whose name it bears, and it moved into this building in 1978. Its core is painting and work on paper by artists of the state, such as Iberê Camargo, Pedro Weingärtner and Carlos Scliar, alongside pieces by Brazilian modernists including Cândido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti and Lasar Segall. The museum closed after the floods of May 2024 and reopened seven months later with an exhibition about the flood and the rescue of its collection. Entry is free.
The state's painters.
On Praça da Alfândega.
Portinari and Segall.
Praça da Alfândega, historic centre, Porto Alegre
Casa de Cultura Mario QuintanaThe Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana fills the former Hotel Majestic, the grandest4 minutes walk4.9
Porto Alegre Public MarketThe Public Market is Porto Alegre's oldest market and one of its best-loved meet5 minutes walk4.6
Orla do Guaíba (Guaíba Waterfront)The Orla do Guaíba, officially Parque Jaime Lerner after the urbanist whose offi16 minutes walk4.8
Farroupilha Park (Redenção)Farroupilha Park, which everyone in Porto Alegre calls Redenção, is the city's m22 minutes walk4.7Yes, it reopened seven months after the May 2024 floods; entry is free, Tuesday to Sunday.