Museum of Modern Art in Caracas | |
Native Name: | Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas |
Map Type: | Venezuela Caracas |
Status: | Never completed |
Architectural Style: | Modernist |
Location City: | Caracas |
Location Country: | Venezuela |
Coordinates: | 10.4805°N -66.8728°W |
Destruction Date: | --> |
Floor Count: | 4 |
Architect: | Oscar Niemeyer |
The Museum of Modern Art in Caracas (Spanish: Museo de Arte Moderno de Caracas) was a proposed art museum in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed in the form of an inverted pyramid, and proposed to be placed on a cliff in the neighborhood of Colinas de Bello Monte high above the Central Zone of Caracas. The proposed structure would be entirely opaque without a visual connection to its surroundings from the interior; natural light would only enter the building via a glass ceiling. It was designed between 1954 and 1955 by Oscar Niemeyer and never realized.