Museum of the Portuguese Language

One of the most fascinating museums I have ever visited was heavily damaged by fire in 2015. However, reconstruction supported by the Brazilian, Portuguese, and São Paulo governments and several corporations, banks, and philanthropic organizations began almost immediately. Originally scheduled to reopen early this year, the pandemic slowed things down. However the delay has a silver lining: the Museum of the Portuguese Language is now scheduled to open its doors this July, with voice-activated displays so that socially distanced visitors don’t have to touch anything.

Gilberto Gil, musician and Brazil’s Minister of Culture from 2003 to 2008: “Language speaks for itself. The importance of taking care of language whether through museums, through programs, through orthographic agreements, whether through processes of opening up to new ways of speaking, language is important. Language is our mother.”