Using this Directory
This directory is intended for a diverse audience, from tourists to scholars. To better serve these different groups, the information in organized in three ways. Scroll down or choose the option that best suits your needs:
A to Z · Geographic · Subject
Alphabetical
Each cultural institution in São Paulo has its own unique page with a map, links, and all basic information. There is also an alphabetical list of all of the institutions and their addresses.
Jump to the alphabetical list:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Geographic
São Paulo’s complex geography consists of over 2000 neighborhoods (bairros), organized into 96 districts and 31 prefectures. The majority of the cultural institutions in this directory, however, are concentrated in the Centro (historic downtown), along Avenida Paulista, in Ibirapuera Park, and on the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) campus.
Neighborhood names are given in parentheses.
Downtown / Centro (Sé, República, Luz, and Liberdade)
- Museu da Língua Portuguesa
- Praça da Luz, s/nº
- Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo
- Praça da Luz, 2
- Museu da Faculdade do Direito da USP
- Largo São Francisco, 95, 1º andar
Avenida Paulista (Cerqueira César, Jardim Europa)
- Museu de Arte São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
- Avenida Paulista, 1578
- Centro Pró-Memória Hans Nobiling
- Rua Angelina Maffei Vita, 493
- Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin
- Rua Portugal, 43
USP Campus (Butantã)
- Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da Universidade de São Paulo (MAE)
- Avenida Professor Almeida Prado, 1466
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC)
- Rua da Reitoria, 160
- Museu de Geosciências da Universidade de São Paulo
- Rua do Lago, 562
- Museu do Instituto Oceanográfico da Universidade de São Paulo
- Praça do Oceanográfico, 191
Ibirapuera Park (Ibirapuera)
- Museu Afro Brasil
- Avenida Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/nº, Portão 10
- Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM)
- Avenida Pedro Álvares Cabral, s/nº, Portão 3
Institutions located outside of those districts are separated by area below:
South / Zona Sul (Ipiranga, Morumbi, and Vila Mariana)
- Fundação Maria Luisa e Oscar Americano
- Avenida Morumbi, 4077
- Museu Lasar Segall
- Rua Berta, 111
- Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo (Museu Ipiranga)
- Parque da Independência, s/nº
- Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo
- Avenida Nazaré, 481
East / Zona Leste (Mooca)
- Museu da Imigração do Estado de São Paulo (Memorial do Imigrante)
- Rua Visconde de Parnaíba, 1316
West / Zona Oeste (Pacaembu)
- Museu do Futebol
- Praça Charles Miller, s/nº Estádio do Pacaembu
Subject Tags
Each of the institutions in this directory have been labelled with one or more of the following tags which describe the type of institution and that organization’s collection. Click on any of the tags below to see a list of the museums and cultural institutions with that tag.
This function of the directory has not yet been developed. (2012-05-05)
Tags for type of institution:
- archives
- art gallery
- community museum
- company museum
- cultural center
- decorative arts museum
- fine arts museum
- folklore museum
- historic house
- history museum
- industrial museum
- library
- local museum
- military museum
- museum of moving images
- natural history museum
- performing arts museum
- philatelic museum
- public gallery
- religious arts museum
- religious museum
- science and technology museum
- special museum
- theater
- university museum
- zoo
Tags for type of materials:
- archival materials
- audio visual materials
- books
- interactive exhibits
- paintings
- performance
- photography
- sculpture
Tags for collection subject areas:
- animals
- architecture
- arqueology
- art
- education
- history
- imigration
- industry
- literature
- medicine
- nature
- religion
- science
- society
- sports
Other tags:
References:
The tags outlined above were developed independently for use on this website, but have been influenced by the controlled vocabularies used in the following works:
Getty Art History Information Program. (1990). Art & architecture thesaurus (AAT). New York: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/.
International directory of arts 2012. (2011). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Miranda, R. M., & Instituto Brasileiro de Museus. (2011). Guia dos museus brasileiros. Brasília: Instituto Brasileiro de Museus, Ministério da Cultura. Retrieved from http://www.museus.gov.br/noticias/guia-dos-museus-brasileiros/.
Museums of the world: Vol. 1. (2006). München: Saur.
Last update: 2012-04-14
