Why is it called Inhotim?

In the 1980s, Paz began buying tracts of land surrounding his modest farmhouse as developers threatened to destroy the natural landscape. The farm had been named by locals after a former owner, an English engineer known as Senhor Tim — Nhô Tim in Minas Gerais's dialect.

The world's largest open-air contemporary art museum, and greater Belo Horizonte's standout attraction, this sprawling, world-class complex of gardens dotted with 23 modern art galleries and numerous outdoor sculptures lies 50km west of the city, near Brumadinho. Much of the international artwork on view is monumental in size, with galleries custom-built to display it. The constantly expanding gardens has over 4000 different species of plants (including one of the world's most extensive collections of palm trees) and lakes with swans.

You can wander at will, or attend daily scheduled programs led by guides trained in visual arts and natural science. Ten on-site eateries serve everything from hot dogs to gourmet international fare. Wednesday's a great day to visit, as the museum is free; weekends can get crowded, but offer a wider range of guided tours.

From Tuesday through Sunday Saritur runs direct buses (R$74 round trip, 1½ hours each way) from Belo Horizonte to Inhotim at 8:15am, returning at 4:30pm weekdays, 5:30pm Saturday and Sunday.

Anyone who sees an elephant's foot for the first time soon realizes where its popular name comes from. Almost without bifurcations, the trunk is broad at the base, at ground level, and tapering vertically. The leaves appear at the top of the tree, like a green fountain, hiding most of the trunk and giving an even more exotic aspect to the whole. The wrinkled, streaked bark is the color and texture of pachyderms' skin, so the plant just needs a trunk to be identical to an elephant.

These primitive plants have their ancestors dated to the Carboniferous period (about 359 million to 299 million years ago). It is a monumental fern, whose leaves can reach 8 meters in length and has its origin in Oceania, occurring in Asia, Australia and Madagascar.

Because it is large, it should be planted in humid places, such as lakes and streams. Its rhizome – a type of stem – is rich in starch and used to perfume coconut oil.

Originally from the South Pacific, it has been introduced to other locations since the 18th century.

Inaugurated in 2008, with a project by the architect Rodrigo Cerviño, this gallery, which brings together works by Adriana Varejão, does not reveal what is inside. The “blind building”, as Cerviño called it, is a large concrete box suspended over a water mirror, which, in turn, reflects and expands the surrounding nature, proposing a dialogue between architecture and landscape. The starting point for the design of the gallery is the structure that previously occupied the place, a support shed for the maintenance of the old farm, which, when removed, left a marked cut in the elevation of the land, used as a base for the gallery construction.

Troca-troca (2002) is a work by Jarbas Lopes composed of three colored beetles, originally yellow, blue and red, which had their bodywork changed, resulting in three multicolored cars. They were used in 2002, by the artist and a group of friends, on a trip from Rio de Janeiro to Curitiba. Communication between the cars was done through an interconnected sound system.

On the way, they put stickers on the windshields of the cars they found on the road, produced from the palindromes archive by artist Luis Andrade: “zé desert, three is ten”, “the bitch leaves in vain”, and “and the bolero; borel oboe”, among others. In 2007, after the restoration, the cars were once again on the road, this time from Belo Horizonte to Brumadinho, after traveling through the surrounding communities.

Native to much of the American continent, anthurium salvinii can be grown as indoor plants or in shady areas of gardens in regions with a mild climate. Many of these species grow on top of other plants, although some have terrestrial roots. Various anthurium salvinii are also sold as cut flowers, as they are eye-catching and particularly long-lasting.

Walking through the Inhotim gardens is more than just contemplating its exuberance. Inserted in the remaining forested portion of the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado – two of the richest biomes in biodiversity and, at the same time, threatened on the planet – the Institute is a pulsating field for scientific research and a tool for conservation and environmental education.

In 2010, Inhotim was recognized as a Botanical Garden, a title awarded by the National Commission of Botanical Gardens (CNJB). The gardens, which began to be built in the 1980s, were designed by Pedro Nehring, who is still responsible for the landscaping of Inhotim. Between 2000 and 2004, Luiz Carlos Orsini signed the 25-hectare landscaping project. Today, the Institute is a national and international reference in contemporary tropical landscaping.

In total, there are more than 140 hectares of visitation area, in addition to an extension of 250 hectares of Inhotim Private Natural Heritage Reserve (RPPN). The Inhotim Botanical Garden (JBI) manages the collection and botanical collections, comprising more than 4,300 native Brazilian and exotic species from around the world, in addition to researching and monitoring the Institute's natural heritage.

In 2021, Instituto Inhotim was awarded the Grant Awarded – BGCI’s Global Botanic Garden Fund, an international incentive that recognizes and supports projects that work towards plant conservation.

PS Colored version.

In her work, Laura Belém recontextualizes objects from daily life, completely changing their meaning, renovating their situation and, moreover, the viewer’s perception of them. Thus, in a work like Enamorados [In Love], presented at the 51st Bienal de Veneza, two small boats seem to chatting with each other. The resource used is a simple one: Belém installed the boats front to front, and placed a spotlight on each of their bows. These lights turn on and off, sometimes coinciding, sometimes disagreeing with each other, thereby establishing the sensation of dialogue and, consequently, resulting in the personification of the boats.

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City of São Paulo records the hottest month of July in almost 40 years in the NEW winter of the southern hemisphere.

Average maximum temperatures recorded from July 1st until yesterday were 25.9ºC / 78.8ºF. 😮😭

In 2011, Inhotim joined the Brazilian government's official botanical garden association, and the staff has begun an inventory of its 5,000 plant species, including 1,300 types of palm alone. This represents more than 28% of botanical families known to man, and helped the institution receive the title of Private Reserve of Natural Patrimony of Inhotim (RPPN).

Inhotim Institute is the only place in Latin America that has the Carrion Flower, a species native to Asia and famous for being the biggest flower in the world. It is also known for the strong odor it releases when blooming, which has given it the alternative name of "corpse flower". In Inhotim, it bloomed for the first time on December 15, 2010, and again on December 27, 2012. The flower is located in the 'Viveiro Educador', in the Equatorial Greenhouse, and is open for visitation by the general public.

Stourhead contains an extensive and complex landscape garden and park that is listed as Grade I in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England. Its main phases of development date from the C18, C19, and C20.

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“You think you own whatever land you land on, that the earth is just a dead thing you can claim, but I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name…

You think the only people who are people are the ones that look and think just like you, but if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.”

― Colors of the Wind

Life can seem an endless maze,

The twists and turns, lulls and delays,

But things always fall into place…

In good time.

Friends will sometimes go away.

Some may disappoint or others betray,

But new ones will come to stay…

In good time.

The hurt of getting something wrong,

And the lesson it often brings along

Are there, you see, to make you strong…

In good time.

Kindness freely given away,

Unnoticed now, will somehow find its way

Back to you and come to stay…

In good time.

Efforts seem not to pay to plan?

Forge on friend, doing the best you can.

Fortune will find the deserving man…

In good time.

Life can be tough, there’s no doubt,

But hope is the thing we can’t do without.

Right things with joy will come about…

In good time. ~

Abimbola T. Alabi

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“The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.” ~ Andy Rooney

Nature has its strategies to spread

In a cultural form we help: more information on

Piet Dolf and the "High Line Walk" in New York

The so-called Sang Nila Utama garden in Fort Canning Park - it is an imagined Malay garden; quite beautiful nevertheless with its water ponds and landscaping.

Suizenji Park, Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan

A statue spotted between two parts of a hedge at Plas Brondawn. I won't need to explain where the fence is: the owner's preference for bright blue makes it easy to spot!

Georgian grandeur on a human scale; a neoclassical mansion by Henry Holland set in 'Capability' Brown's final landscape and gardens.

The tulips at the Dow Gardens in Midland, MI aren't of the enormity of the tulips in Holland, MI, but not for lack of trying. We caught the beautiful displays on this rainy mid-May afternoon. I doubt that there was a more beautiful place in mid-Michigan on this day.

Lago di Braies - After a cloudy afternoon 20 minutes of sunshine. Unfortunately the low water did not allow me to take the picture I wanted! If you have any questions, write to me in private.

The Nirvana Memorial Gardens are largely landscaped in the classic Chinese style, complete with streams, ponds, bridges and pavilions. A pity the water was rather muddy though...

the main fountain at the Tirtagangga water palace on Bali.

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Walking through the Inhotim gardens is more than just contemplating its exuberance. Inserted in the remaining forested portion of the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado – two of the richest biomes in biodiversity and, at the same time, threatened on the planet – the Institute is a pulsating field for scientific research and a tool for conservation and environmental education.

In 2010, Inhotim was recognized as a Botanical Garden, a title awarded by the National Commission of Botanical Gardens (CNJB). The gardens, which began to be built in the 1980s, were designed by Pedro Nehring, who is still responsible for the landscaping of Inhotim. Between 2000 and 2004, Luiz Carlos Orsini created the 25-hectare landscaping project. Today, the Institute is a national and international reference in contemporary tropical landscaping.

In total, there are more than 140 hectares of visitation area, in addition to an extension of 250 hectares of Inhotim Private Natural Heritage Reserve (RPPN). The Inhotim Botanical Garden (JBI) manages the collection and botanical collections, comprising more than 4,300 native Brazilian and exotic species from around the world, in addition to researching and monitoring the Institute's natural heritage.

In 2021, Instituto Inhotim was awarded the Grant Awarded – BGCI’s Global Botanic Garden Fund, an international incentive that recognizes and supports projects that work towards plant conservation.

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It's my third time and I walked 3/4 of the Inhotim institute until today. I walked through the left front part of the desert plants and some art galleries. I'll have to go one more time to see the last part (4/4).

The distance from home to Inhotim Institute is 549.5 kilometers or 340.8 miles by car. The fastest route takes about 7 hours and 19 minutes.

From São Paulo State to Minas Gerais State.

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"Landscape design is the greatest of all art forms because it not only embraces the three dimensions of conventional art, but also the fourth dimension of time"

-Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe-

Schönbrunn Palace Park (1779)

UNESCO World Heritage

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The Chinese style buildings and landscaping at the Nirvana Memorial Gardens

The flight of the seagull

Moongate in Water Pavilion in Autumn.

This is an archive shot, taken years ago when there were no tall buildings to clutter the scene, or disturb the serenity.

English name : Common hornbeam

Nombre en español : El carpe blanco o carpe europeo

Nom botanique : Carpinus betulus

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Fujinon XF 27/2.8 R WR II

The Chinese Garden of Friendship in Sydney was built with the help of designers and artisans / craftsmen from Guangdong province in China. It is so authentic in appearance that it could be somewhere in China.

Bergamo - piazza Vecchia

Bergamo - piazza Vecchia

Visited Hexinyuan, which means Garden of Inseparable Hearts, while at the water town of Zhujiajiao, about an hour from Shanghai. It dates back to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and is visited together with the old family mansion which is full of antiques and precious objects. The building you see here is most unusual as it is made up of two pavilions joined together, probably what gives the garden its name.

Visited Hexinyuan, which means Garden of Inseparable Hearts, while at the water town of Zhujiajiao, about an hour from Shanghai. It dates back to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and is visited together with the old family mansion which is full of antiques and precious objects.

The Nirvana Memorial Gardens are largely landscaped in the classic Chinese style, complete with streams, ponds, bridges and pavilions. A pity the water was rather muddy though...

Lakeside view