“The Portuguese language is my homeland”

Fernando Pessoa

“A minha pátria é a língua portuguesa”

Pátria

Father

Pátria Gentle Mother

Homeland

Pai

(IDIOMA – MATERNO – TERNO) Haroldo de Campos

Feeling of belonging, safety, our roots

IDIOMATERNO

GLOBO ORGANIZATIONROBERTO MARINHO FOUNDATION

• Five million students already graduated from school

• 27.000 Teleclassrooms implemented all over the country

• 30.000 teachers qualified

• 1.500 fellow institutions

Preservation of our heritagePreservation of our heritage

Sé Church – Rio de Janeiro

Preservation of our heritagePreservation of our heritage

Christ project – Rio de Janeiro

Preservation of our heritagePreservation of our heritage

Paraty’s House of Culture – Rio de Janeiro

Immaterial heritageImmaterial heritage

Football Museum – São Paulo

Immaterial heritageImmaterial heritage

Football Museum – São Paulo

Restored facade January, 2004

Architecture Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Pedro Mendes da Rocha

Design Project Ralph Appelbaum, James Cathcart and Andres Cleric

Content Coordination: Isa Ferraz

Experts: Ana Suely Arruda Cabral, Alberto Costa and Silva, Antônio Risério, Arnaldo Antunes, Arthur Nestrovski, Aryon Rodrigues, Ataliba T. de Castilho, Carlos Alberto Ricardo, Ieda Maria Alves, Ivo Castro, José Miguel Wisnik, Leandro Karnal, Manuela Carneiro Cunha, Marcello Dantas, Marilza Oliveira, Mario Eduardo Viaro, Mirta Groppi, Oswaldo Truzzi, Yeda Pessoa de Castro

Scripts: Ana Ligabue, Isa Ferraz, Marcelo Macca e Marcos Pompéia

Axis of Content

Theme axis

The language’s ancestry

Language universality

Language Blend

Revealed through the arts:

Literature, poetry, music, theater and cinema.

Language in everyday-life : in the press, graffiti, soap operas, work, people’s day-by-day.

Great Gallery

Great Gallery

History of Portuguese Language – Timeline

History of Portuguese Language – Timeline

Crossword Puzzle

Crossword Puzzle

Etymology Table

Auditorium entrance

Temporary Exhibition – Guimarães Rosa

1st floorTemporary Exhibition – Guimarães Rosa

Portuguese Language in the world

More than 200 million people speak Portuguese in all continents:

186 million in South America

14 million in Africa

8 million in Europe

2 million in North America

330 thousand in Asia

Portuguese Language in the world

Newsworthy

Business Week, March 2007 The New York Times, October 2006

Clarín (Argentina), August 2006 Veja Magazine (Brazil), September 2006

Newsworthy