the building runs 360 degrees around allowing spectacular panoramic views of rio de janeiro's skyline including of the pão de açúcar and of christ on corcovado.

throughout his long career niemeyer designed over 500 buildings and projects in both brazil and abroad - of all this work he is reported to have specified that the museu de arte contemporanea de niterói was one of his favorites.

the gallery collection comprises almost 1200 works of the joão sattamini collection as well as a small set of 369 works, coming from various donations.