Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Brazil's oldest art museum, holding more than 12,000 works of Brazilian art across three buildings.
Founded in 1905 by the government of the state of São Paulo, the Pinacoteca is the city's oldest art museum. It occupies a brick building on Praça da Luz begun in 1900 to designs by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiciano Rossi, originally intended for the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios craft school. Between 1993 and 1998 Paulo Mendes da Rocha reworked the interior, roofing the two courtyards in glass and threading steel walkways between the galleries. The scheme received the Mies van der Rohe Prize for Latin American Architecture.
The collection numbers more than twelve thousand items and concentrates on Brazilian painting, sculpture and prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, alongside the Brasiliana, Nemirovsky and Roger Wright holdings. The museum now works across three sites in the Luz district: Pina Luz, the historic building; Pina Estação, opened in 2003 in the former political police headquarters; and Pina Contemporânea, inaugurated in March 2023 with galleries, studios, an auditorium and a roof terrace. A single ticket admits visitors to all three on the same day.
Highlights
- Glass-roofed courtyards and steel walkways by Paulo Mendes da Rocha
- Almeida Júnior's O Violeiro and other nineteenth-century Brazilian paintings
- Pina Contemporânea, added in 2023 beside the Parque da Luz
- Pina Estação, housed in the former DOPS political police building
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