Moreira Salles Institute

The Moreira Salles Institute (Portuguese: Instituto Moreira Salles, IMS) is a Brazilian nonprofit organization founded by diplomat and banker Walter Moreira Salles in 1992, with the establishment of its first cultural center in the city of Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais. Later, the institute expanded its operations to São Paulo (1996), in a mansion located in the Higienópolis neighborhood, and to Rio de Janeiro (1999), in a former Moreira Salles family residence, built in 1951 with architectural design by Olavo Redig de Campos and landscaping by Burle Marx. It is managed by the Moreira Salles family and is exclusively dedicated to the promotion, collection development, and implementation of cultural programs in the fields of photography, literature, iconography, visual arts, music, and cinema.

Part of its collections in these areas is available for public onsultation on the institute's website as well as in its cultural centers. The institute also operates online radio channels and publishes various materials, such as exhibition catalogs, books on literature, photography, and music, and two magazines: Zum (a semiannual publication on contemporary photography from Brazil and around the world) and Serrote (a quarterly magazine focused on essays and ideas). Since 2019, the institute has contributed with part of its collection in the public domain to Wikimedia Commons.