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The Pampulha Art Museum (MAP), formerly Pampulha Casino, is part of the Pampulha Architectural Ensemble,which focuses on varied artistic trends in exhibitions, research and conceptualization. In its collection are works of Brazilian contemporary art. As soon as it opened, the city's first casino began to attract players from all over Brazil, transforming Belo Horizonte's nightlife. The glory times of Pampulha Casino were short lived. In 30 of April of 1946, gambling was banned in Brazil. It started to function as a museum in 1957 when it was known as the "Crystal Palace". Since the 1996 renovation, its facilities have a library, gift shop, café and multimedia rooms. The MAP has a collection of 1,600 works, among them, exhibitions of Brazilian Contemporary Art, which focus on various artistic trends. One of the highlights of the collection is the works of Guignard. Its collection brings together works by various artists such as Oswaldo Goeldi, Fayga Ostrower and Anna Letycia, works by modernists such as Di Cavalcanti, Livio Abramo, Bruno Giorgi and Ceschiatti, and contemporaries Antonio Dias, Frans Krajcberg, Ado Malagoli, Iberê Camargo, Tomie Ohtake, Ivan Serpa, Milton Dacosta, Alfredo Volpi, Franz Weissmann, among others.

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