Arts and entertainment
Curitiba is the first city in Brazil to have an IMAX movie theatre. It is in the Palladium Shopping Center which is the biggest mall in Southern Brazil. Curitiba also has many theaters. The biggest and most important one is the Guaira Theater. Every year, in April, it hosts the Curitiba Theater Festival, with various artists playing in Curitiba Theaters and even on the squares.
Museums
For the famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer Curitiba became the home to his extravagantly designed museum, the state museum of Curitiba. Its design includes a gravity defying construction that was intended to look like a Parana Pine, one of the city's symbols, but is widely interpreted by locals as an eye which gave the Museum its nickname – Museu do Olho, or Museum of the Eye. In keeping with the Curitiba history and culture of science, the museum offers many science exhibitions, including Curitiba biennal/Curitiba biennial, twice-yearly exhibitions. The Curitiba museum also includes the Oscar Niemeyer Curitiba auditorium.
Museu Paranaense ("Paranaense Museum") – dedicated to the arts and history;
Oscar Niemeyer Museum – the largest museum of Latin America, dedicated to plastic arts;
Museu de Arte Sacra ("Religious Art Museum") – the focus are religious and sacred Christian art in general;
Museu do Expedicionario ("Museum of Expeditionary") – dedicated to the history of Brazilian participation in World War II;
Museu de Arte Contemporanea ("Museum of Contemporary Art");
Museu da Imagem e do Som ("Image and Sound Museum") – about cinema and photography;
Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Curitiba ("Metropolitan Museum of Art in Curitiba") – modern art;
Museu de Historia Natural ("Natural History Museum") – dedicated to the biology and botany.
Carnival/Carnaval
Like most Southerner cities, Curitiba has no such thing as a Carnival
