According to a press release from the Ministry of Culture, the work is expected to be erected by 2025 at a cost of about eight million dollars, invested through the so-called Growth Acceleration Program. The R7 website reports that the museum will be built in the North Cultural Sector, an area behind the Claudio Santoro National Theater, and the occupation of the site was foreseen in the initial plan of the federal capital, but is still on paper.

According to the site, the national competition for the choice of the architectural project should be presented soon by the Ministry of Culture and the Brazilian Institute of Museums.

On January 8, 2023, a date marked in black in the national history, radical followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded and plundered the capital’s headquarters of the National Congress, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and the Planalto Palace, the seat of the Executive Branch.

The extremists violently broke into the buildings of the Three Powers, under shouts of military intervention and in rejection of the assumption to power of President Luiz Inacio da Silva, who in October 2022 defeated Bolsonaro at the polls.

On December 12, Lula invited the governors to an event on January 8 to mark one year since the attacks on the capital’s headquarters of the Three Powers.

“I am inviting all the governors because on January 8 we are going to hold an meeting in Brasília to remember the people who tried to stage a coup on January 8, and who were defeated by democracy,” he declared at an event at the Planalto on financing works in the states by federal banks.

He pointed out that he intends “to have all the governors here, deputies, senators, businessmen, so that people will never again doubt that the democratic regime is the only thing that gives the institutions certainty to work and the people to have access to participate in the wealth they produce.

The rest is a lie”, he stressed.

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