Founded in 2004 by the artist and curator Emanoel Araújo, the Museu Afro Brasil occupies Oscar Niemeyer's Padre Manuel da Nóbrega Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park. It holds over 6,000 works — paintings, sculptures, photographs, documents, and ritual objects — making it the largest museum dedicated to Afro-descendant art and culture in the Americas, with a particular focus on the religious, artistic, and historical memory of Africans and their descendants in Brazil.