Pinacotheque. Photo: SPTuris | José Cordeiro
Museums
The city has about 125 museums, with a valuable art collection. It would be worthwhile to go on a trip only to get to know them, but if you have very little time, three of them cannot be left out. The Museu de Arte de São Paulo (Masp) (Art Museum of São Paulo) already expresses importance for its location, situated in the middle of Avenida Paulista, cultural and financial center of São Paulo and the city’s hype icon. Its building is an architectural reference, because its covering is suspended by red beams, under a 74-meter span. The museum has a collection of eight thousand pieces, with works of renowned artists, like Monet, Raphael, Renoir, Picasso and Van Gogh, aside from an amphitheater, a store and a restaurant. On Sundays, the place receives an antique fair with diverse articles with guarantee of authenticity. At the State Pinacotheque, located within the region of Luz, there are also good temporary exhibitions, with a collection of about one thousand works and pieces of Tarsila do Amaral, Portinari and Rodin. The area offers a delicious coffee, outside, providing open air punches with view toward the Luz Park. Whoever enjoys movie, photography, video, sound, television, graphic arts and new media will be having fun at the MIS (Museum of Image and Sound). Once a month the place produces Green Sunset, a party of electronic music that is reputed for bringing big named DJs at the outer area of the museum.