Memorial JK

JK Memorial

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[President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the founder of Brasilia]

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Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 20, 2009

1. Memorial JK Marker

Projeto do arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer foi inaugurado em 12 de setembro de 1981 em homenagem a Juscelino Kubischek de Oliveira, fundador de Brasilia. Abriga biblioteca com trēs mil volumes que pertenceram a JK, atém de objetos pessoais, fotos, videos e vários documentos. Os painéis da recepção e da câmara mortuaria são obras de Althos Bulcão. O vitral que se encontra acima da uma funerária é de autoria da artista francesa Marianne Peretti. A estátua de JK esculpid por Honório Peçanha mede 4,50 metros e pesa 1.500 quilos.

English:
This Oscar Niemeyer project, was inaugurated on September 12, 1981. It is dedicated to the memory of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the founder of Brasilia. It holds JK’s personal library heap, comprising about 3,000 books. Besides, it keeps a great deal of JK’s belongings, photographs, video cassettes among many documents. The panels on the reception area and surrounding the tomb are Athos Bulcão works. The stained glass window above the catafalque is a work by the French artist Marianne Peretti. A column over the memorial holds a statue of JK (4.5 meters and 1,500 kg), sculpted by Honório Peçanha.
 
Erected by Distrito Federal do Brazil.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers. A significant historical month for this entry is September 1747.
 
Location. 15° 47.072′ S, 47° 54.768′ W. Marker is in Setores Complementares, Distrito Federal, in Brasília. It is at the intersection of the connector road and Exio Monumental - Via S. Um Oeste on the connector road. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Praça do Cruzeiro, Setores Complementares, Distrito Federal 70312, Brazil. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in the South Atlantic Region, South America, and the Western Hemisphere.

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Historically, it finds itself in what was once Portuguese colonies.


 
More about this marker. The Memorial is on the city's "Monumental Axis" (Exio Monumental), across the road on the south from Praça Bunti and the Memorial dos Povos Indigenes, and on the north from Praça do Cruzeiro. The marker is off the sidewalk near the Memorial's south entrance between Via N. Um Oeste and Via S. Um Oeste.
 
Also see . . .
1. Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on January 18, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.) 

2. Brasília. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on February 8, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.) 
 
Additional keywords. Tomb; architecture; Sara Luisa Gomes de Sousa Lemos Kubitschek; "o Fundador"; Praça do Cruzeiro

 

Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 20, 2009

2. Memorial JK

Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 20, 2009

3. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek

- portrait near his crypt in the Memorial.

Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 20, 2009

4. Mrs. Sara Luisa Gomes de Lemo Kubitschek

- portrait near her crypt in the JK Memorial.

Photographed by Richard E. Miller, December 19, 2009

5. Memorial JK

 

 
Credits. This page was last revised on May 10, 2023. It was originally submitted on January 18, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. This page has been viewed 6,090 times since then and 65 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on January 18, 2010, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.