This remarkably shaped monument was built in 1980 by Niemeyer to honor the founder of Brasilia, Juscelino Kubitschek. Inside on the second floor, the former president’s remains rest beneath a skylight in a granite tomb, his only epitaph an inscription on the coffin reading O FUNDADOR.
Aside from this slightly spooky scene, the memorial contains a lot of JK’s junk that no one could ever care about (JK’s ribbons and medals, JK’s suits and tie clips) and, upstairs, some fairly interesting stuff about Brasilia, including photographs of the city under construction and copies of the designs that didn’t get chosen.