The Oscar Niemeyer Museum, which also known as Museu do Olho or Museum of the Eye for its new addition, is located in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, in Brazil. The annex, which was launched on July 8, 2003, is to honor its famous architect who completed this project at 95 years of age. The first building, Castello Branco, was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1967, faithful to the style of the time, and conceived as an educational institute. It was remodeled and adapted to function as a museum, imprinting it with a new characteristic identity for a twenty-first-century museum of international building standard.

To the existing building he added a striking annex in the shape of an eye, constructed from reinforced concrete and mounted on a cubic plinth, and providing the shock factor so characteristic of Niemeyer’s work. With project architectural of Oscar Niemeyer, the building has 33,000 m² of constructed area of which 15,300 m² destined the expositions, inserted in a complex of 144.000 m² that it includes a forest (the Forest Pope João Pablo II) and the Village of the Culture that will occupy the constructions of the State Department of Official Transport (Deto).

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