Cockroach Tour
In The Cockroach Tour, an attraction promoted by the Danish art collective Superflex, the audience is taken around the museum wearing a costume of the insect that has inhabited the Earth for 300 million years and will possibly continue here long after we humans. The idea is to see the world from the perspective of one of the oldest and most resistant species of the planet – challenging the very idea of "tomorrow".
The cockroach costumes were developed by artisans from the samba school Vizinha Faladeira, whose warehouse is near the Museum. The tour was presented at the London Science Museum and gained an exclusive script for Museum of Tomorrow, with two actors in costumes conducting the tour.
- The Cockroach Tour is included in the Museum’s ticket. Refer to the purchase terms to know if you are entitled to free or half-price tickets;
- The activity takes place in two sessions on Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 and 15:00, and lasts about an hour;
- You should reserve a spot 30 minutes in advance at the Museum’s box office;
- Each group has 20 spots.
Museum of Tomorrow is an Applied Sciences museum which explores the opportunities and challenges which humanity will be forced to tackle in the coming decades from the perspective of sustainability and conviviality. Launched December 2015 by Rio de Janeiro City Hall, Museum of Tomorrow is a Culture asset from Rio's Secretary of Culture currently managed by Instituto de Desenvolvimento e Gestão (IDG). Example of a well-succeeded partnership between public power and private initiative, it has already received over three million visitors since opening. With Santander Bank as a Master Sponsor and a wide network of partner sponsors as Shell, IBM, IRB-Brasil RE, Engie, Grupo Globo and Instituto CCR, the museum was originally conceived by Roberto Marinho Foundation.