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A botanic park and contemporary-art expo that is well-maintained. Great lagoons, grass, all sorts of palm trees and forest. There are galleries and pieces from various contemporary-artists including Cildo Meireles, Adriana Varejão, Miguel Rio Branco and Matthew Barney. There are restaurants and snack bars inside the park (you're not supposed to bring food). From Belo Horizonte the park can be reached by bus: Saritur has a bus that goes directly to the park everyday. Departure from the central rodoviaria at 09:15, comes back from the park at 16:30. Around R$25 return trip. This is a 2-hour trip.
The Inhotim Institute is a Brazilian contemporary art museum. It is one of the largest outdoor art centers in Latin America. It was founded by the former mining magnate Bernardo Paz in 2004 to house his personal art collection, but opened to the public a couple of years later. In 2014, the open-air museum was one of TripAdvisor's top 25 best-ranked museums in the world.