The Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) inaugurated this Friday (3) two exhibitions: Radio in Brazil It is Father Landell: The Man Who Invented the Future. The exhibitions bring together photos, documents, interactive installations, equipment and an application about the history of radio. Visitation is free: Tuesday to Friday, from 11 am to 8 pm; and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 10 am to 7 pm.
Radio in Brazil features an interactive timeline. Along the way, visitors check out equipment, photographs and an application that allows access to extra content, such as excerpts from 14 testimonials collected exclusively for the exhibition, which will later be part of the MIS Collection.
Visitors can check out equipment that shows the history of radio – Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil
MIS cultural manager, Renan Daniel, reveals what the public can see at the exhibition. “In the space where we mention male and female singers on the radio, the public will be able to access these artists’ favorite songs and their biography. The installation of the radios timeline, the public can see, decade by decade, which were the biggest hits most played on the radio. In each space of the exhibition there are different interactivity and also non-technological, which is also very fun and engaging for the public.”
News and humor programs, broadcasts of football matches and radio soap operas are also covered in the exhibition. The public can also see radio sets from different decades, items belonging to the museum’s own collection. “The highlights are the Capela models, from the 1930s, which, in addition to being very rare and specific, are aesthetically very beautiful, they were elements that decorated people’s homes as well”, emphasizes Daniel.
The show has content consultancy by Milton Parron, research and writing by journalist Maurício Nunes and institutional partnership with the Association of Radio and Television Stations of the State of São Paulo (AESP), Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação and the Brazilian Museum of Radio and Television.
Father Landell: The Man Who Invented the Future
Integrated to Radio in Brazilthe exposure Father Landell: The Man Who Invented the Future presents the Brazilian responsible for the pioneering invention of the radio. Among the highlights is the wave transmitter (wave transmitter), piece produced in full size, by the collector Marco Aurélio Cardoso de Moura, based on the writings of Landell.
exhibitions Radio in Brazil It is Father Landell: The Man Who Invented the Future have free entrance – Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil
For the MIS cultural manager, what may surprise the public most at this exhibition is seeing that technological evolution does not stop “and that radio, despite being 100 years old, is still very present for people”.
In Daniel’s assessment, it also draws attention “that a Brazilian priest, Roberto Landell de Moura, was responsible for the first experiment of what came to become radio, it is also very interesting to see how he already predicted in his studies, which was later the wireless internet network, for example. It is something quite surprising that the exhibition reveals to the public”.
In partnership with the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (USP), the exhibition presents an interactive installation, with simple experiments, to illustrate the discoveries of physicists and inventors, contemporaries of Landell, who contributed to the technological evolution of radio.
Other attractions of the exhibition are the original documents from the Historical and Geographical Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, the patent registered by Landell in the United States, schematics and preliminary studies of his experiments and original diaries. Curated by researcher Helena Tassara and biographer Hamilton de Almeida.
MIS
The Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo is an institution of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the Government of the State of São Paulo. Inaugurated in 1970, its collection has more than 200,000 items, such as photographs, films, videos and posters. In addition to major national and international exhibitions, it offers cultural programs for all audiences: cinema, dance, music, video and photography.
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exhibitions Radio in Brazil It is Father Landell: The Man Who Invented the Future
Date: March 3 to April 16, 2023
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, from 11 am to 8 pm; weekends and holidays from 10 am to 7 pm
Location: 1st Floor Exhibition Space – MIS – Avenida Europa, 158, Jardim Europa
Free classification
Free entrance
