The Inhotim, a museum of contemporary art in the jungle

To cross the threshold of the Inhotim Museum in Brumadinho is to enter the 'wildest' contemporary art collection on earth. In this institution created in the 1980s by local entrepreneur Bernardo de Mello Paz, on the immense estate of a farm nestled between the Atlantic Forest and the tropical savannah of the Cerrado, one gets a sense of how art and nature can harmoniously merge into each other. In fact, 1,862 works by more than 280 artists from 43 countries make up this boundless collection, exhibited outdoors and in some galleries, as well as inside a Botanical Garden where thousands of rare species from all continents are cultivated. Bernardo Paz, its inventor, wanted precisely to promote dialogue between man and creation, experimenting with a shared language that anticipated today's impulses by a few decades, and giving life to an expressive workshop that has since had many epigones around the world: only at the Inhotim Museum, however, do plants and works seem inextricably linked.