Rio’s Museum of Image and Sound finally opens after 16 years in development

Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-RJ) opens to the public on 8 May after more than 16 years in development. The 10,000-sq.-m, eight-floor waterfront building on Avenida Atlântica was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with a façade of interlocking aluminium and glass panels and references to Roberto Burle Marx’s iconic Copacabana sidewalk design from the 1970s. First announced in 2009 and begun in 2011, the project stalled repeatedly, including a 2016 funding suspension amid Brazil’s economic downturn following President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, before resuming in 2021. The 329.2 million reais ($62.5m) museum was completed with mixed public-private funding, including corporate donors Itaú, Vale, and Rede Globo.

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