Arts and culture
Museum of Images of the Unconscious
Museu de Imagens do Inconsciente
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro museum founded in 1952 by psychiatrist Nise da Silveira within a former psychiatric hospital in Engenho de Dentro, housing roughly 350,000 artworks made by psychiatric patients through occupational art therapy.
- Focus
- Mad Pride and psychiatric survivors, Psychosis and schizophrenia
- Leadership
- Mixed leadership
- Where
- In person
- Languages
- Portuguese, English
- Since
- 1952
Visit museuimagensdoinconsciente.org.br (opens in a new tab)
Verified 2026-09-09 from pt.wikipedia.org. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Collection registered as Brazilian national heritage by IPHAN; part of the Instituto Municipal Nise da Silveira, whose grounds also host the Loucura Suburbana carnival bloc catalogued separately.
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