Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Tomorrow opens exhibition about the heart

The exhibition S2 – Heart, Pulse of Life, held by Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of Tomorrow in partnership with the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), presents, starting on October 13, the heart as a machine for living and feeling.

The exhibition is parallel to the World Congress of Cardiology, from October 13 to 15, in Rio de Janeiro.

Distributed among the areas of Heart, Living Well, and Feeling Together, the exhibition offers much information about the vital organ besides immersive experiences.

The topics covered will be the importance of heart health, its relationship to quality of life, the impact of social inequality on cardiovascular disease, the relationship between mental and physical health, and what can be done to ensure a better life.

According to the general director of the Museum of Tomorrow, Bruna Baffa, health and longevity are themes that have a lot to do with the “tomorrows” that the institution seeks to build.

“When we imagine these tomorrows, we must consider health, well-being, and quality of life for all. That is an important point of the exhibition: we broadly discuss the heart as a vital organ and health.

Bruna pointed out that one of the purposes of the exhibition is to discuss who has the right to health in Brazil.

“We live in a country with huge inequality, bringing this into the exhibition. Even though we have the innovations and technologies that make it evolve, not everyone has equal access. We provoke this critical look here, during the exhibition.”

According to the president of the Administrative Council of SBC, João Fernando Monteiro Ferreira, the World Congress will make Brazil, for a few days, the global center of cardiology.

According to the doctor, the exhibition brings science closer to the population through art.

“It is an invitation to society to be aware of the importance of the heart in our lives. This way, we create an excellent opportunity for people to be protagonists in the conquest of good health and agents in the diffusion of healthier life habits,” said the cardiologist.

The first section of the exhibition, called “Heart”, will cover the aspects related to the inside of the human body, with the main focus on the heart’s structure, its functioning, and the conditions that can affect it.

This way, the public will be able to get closer to the heart’s physiology and perceive it as an organ that works in connection with several others. Through an interactive experience, it will be possible to hear and visualize your heartbeat replicated in the environment.

According to the organizers, the “Living Well” area will highlight the social, behavioral, economic, ethno-racial, and environmental aspects that contribute to individual choices and expose the complexity of achieving a quality of life within the current social construction.

This context reveals the importance of a humanized, multidisciplinary, and individualized medical follow-up, besides reinforcing the need for public policies to guarantee access to health.

The last section, “Feeling Together,” will translate, with an audiovisual intervention of poetry and dance, the feeling of being alive, being present in the world, feeling joys and pains, and sharing experiences.

WELL-BEING DAY

As part of the program aligned with the exhibition, the Museum of Tomorrow will hold, on October 15, the Wellness Day.

There will be a full day of activities inside and outside the museum for all ages, promoting the practice of self-care and quality of life, besides exchanging knowledge about health and longevity.

The day will start with a mediated bike tour around the museum in partnership with Kit Livre and Transporte Ativo. There will be bicycles adapted for people with disabilities.

The schedule will include a functional training class, a yoga class, a conversation circle on food safety, and a Tomorrow’s Vegetable Garden workshop.

WORLD CONGRESS OF CARDIOLOGY

More than 11 thousand scientists, academics, and physicians will be at Riocentro, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro, for the World Congress of Cardiology, which after 24 years will be held in the country again.

The event, parallel to the 77th Brazilian Congress of Cardiology, will have about 250 sessions and more than 600 speakers.

With information from Agência Brasil