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The Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) is a Brazilian nonprofit cultural institute founded in 1992 by diplomat and banker Walther Moreira Salles. It is dedicated to the promotion, development, and preservation of collections in the fields of photography, literature, music, iconography, visual arts, and cinema, and is widely regarded as the most important institution for photography in Brazil. IMS operates cultural centers in three cities: Poços de Caldas (Minas Gerais), Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
IMS was inaugurated in October 1992 in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, as a tribute by Walther Moreira Salles to the region where his family settled in 1918. The institute expanded to São Paulo in 1996, initially at a space in the Higienópolis neighborhood, and to Rio de Janeiro in 1999, in a former Moreira Salles family residence in the Gávea neighborhood, designed by architect Olavo Redig de Campos with landscaping by Roberto Burle Marx. In 2017, the São Paulo center moved to a new nine-story building on Avenida Paulista, becoming its primary public-facing location. IMS's activities are supported by funding initially provided by Unibanco and subsequently by the Moreira Salles family.
The Photography Division is the centerpiece of IMS's collections, containing approximately two million images spanning from the 19th century through the early 21st century. Key holdings include the works of Marc Ferrez, Marcel Gautherot, José Medeiros, Hans Gunter Flieg, and the collection of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. In 2016, IMS acquired the photographic archive of the Diários Associados media group — one of the largest media conglomerates in 20th-century Brazil, led by Assis Chateaubriand — adding approximately one million images from newspapers including O Jornal (founded 1919), Diário da Noite (1929), and Jornal do Commercio. This acquisition makes IMS a major repository for Brazilian press photography. The Music Division holds over 21,000 phonograms and an extensive collection of 78 rpm records, including archives of composers Chiquinha Gonzaga, Ernesto Nazareth, and Pixinguinha. The Literature Division contains papers of major Brazilian writers including Clarice Lispector, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and Rachel de Queiroz. The Iconography Division encompasses 19th- and 20th-century visual materials, prints, and drawings related to Brazilian history and culture.
IMS publishes ZUM, a semiannual magazine on contemporary photography; Serrote, a quarterly magazine of essays and ideas; exhibition catalogs; and books on photography, literature, and music. The institute also operates Rádio Batuta, an online radio channel dedicated to Brazilian music.
Parts of IMS's collections are accessible for research consultation at its cultural centers and online at ims.com.br. Since 2019, IMS has contributed public-domain materials to Wikimedia Commons. The IMS Paulista in São Paulo includes nine floors with 1,200 m² of exhibition space, a cinema, library, bookshop, and restaurant.