Brazil’s Petrobras Scandal Yields Surprise Bounty: Museum Pieces

The biggest corporate fraud case in Brazil’s history has cost its most important company billions of dollars, heaped disgrace on the nation’s political elites and helped slow its economy to a crawl.

But there is an upside to the bribery-and-kickback affair centered on oil giant Petróleo Brasileiro SA: cheap art for the public.

For a $3 entry fee, patrons of the Oscar Neimeyer Museum in this provincial state capital in southern Brazil are being treated to a show of 48 world-class artworks by several of the country’s most renowned modern artists—courtesy of some unlikely donors.

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