Memorial really well structured and kept, lots of history behind JK’s life, career, accomplishments, and family. Great place to learn about one of Brazil most impactful presidents.
Memorial really well structured and kept, lots of history behind JK’s life, career, accomplishments, and family. Great place to learn about one of Brazil most impactful presidents.
With enlarged photos & various memorabilia items on "two floors", to see in this building is quite a "thorough coverage" of the life of the 21st president of Brazil who was also the founder of this capital city: from his childhood days in Belo Horizonte to his days as a medical student (when he also worked as a telephone operator) to his presidential campaign in the 1950's (for which besides the photos is also a small model of the plane that took him to his campaign stops) to his time of presidency (when he met with such well-known leaders as the American presidents Eisenhower & Kennedy and also Fidel Castro of Cuba) to the time of exile in the 1960's (when I suppose he lived in Paris as seen in the photo of him standing in front of the Eiffel Tower); and also great apart from those numerous large photos & pieces of memorabilia is something much larger which is his "office replica" (on the back side of the first floor); and also be sure not to miss (on the second floor) some of the clothes of him & his wife's (who as the sign says was a "fashionable lady" during her time as the First Lady).
And yes, apart from a great deal to see inside, right outside the building are: a "meticulously-maintained" lawn which goes all around the building, reflecting pools both on the front side & the back side of the grounds (right outside the building), a column with his statue on top on the front side, a "couple statue" of him & his wife on the lawn on the front side, and some big soccer balls made of metal or such (but not solid-faced and instead with big openings on their faces) also on that spacious front lawn.
It was really at the end of the "long day" starting with the TV Tower (closed for renovation at the time so only to see from below) followed by just about a 10-minute walk to Museu Nacional (with scant "modern art" displays seen inside and so where really the exterior of a "big dome" is pretty much all there was to see) & just nearby Catedral Metropolitana (a modern-designed one with a "big & beautiful" ceiling inside) followed by about a 20-minute walk to Caixa Cultural Center (with mostly paintings on display of temporary nature but pretty nice to see an "exhibit of doors" in one room) followed by a short taxi ride to Santuario Dom Bosco (with a "stunning blue" interior for some nice general pics although with nothing elaborate apart from those beautiful sides) followed by another short taxi ride to this site where I initially thought it would be just a quick visit for a memorial shrine or such but which just turned out to be a lot more (a nice "memorial museum" to learn about the life of a great man!).
The JK, unique structure of the building, with all the spaces and history about Districto Federal and JK.
This part of Brazilian history of the XX century is very interesting to be seen!
JK was the president who idealizate the new capital!
Many documents, pictures and even clothes from the JK president are there.
This is a wonderful memorial built by Sarah Kubitscheck after former president Jucelino Kubitscheck died in a car accident, a few years after he had built the new Country Capital of Brasilia. Yes, they say JK did 50 years in 5, when he delivered the new capital in 1960. You can experience JK personal library and Sarahs office while building this memorial for her husband.
The Memorial JK is a great introduction to Brasilia, it's earliest days and the building boom of the late fifties that created the city. It also provides insight to JK and his personal history and his place in the history of the country.