Sao Paulo Trip Overview
With this tour of museums, get to know the city from a cultural and ethnographic point of view.
São Paulo is the capital of arts with dozens of museums and exhibits that cover all forms of art. It has a countless source of discoveries for Art lovers such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, drawings, printmaking, design, crafts, photography and others.
Take advantage of the one-on-one experience of a private tour while the guide sheds light on the city’s best art museums and galleries.
Visit the São Paulo Museum of Art which was the first modern art museum in Brazil and houses the largest collection of European art in South America.
Next, get cross Paulista ave admiring its modern skyscrapers heading to Ibirapuera Park. Once in Ibirapuera, visit three outstanding art museums that are Afro Brasil, Contemporary Art and Modern Art.
You can also customize the itinerary choosing from the most diverse museums presented below on the “what to expect section” and make your own list.
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Duration: 8 hours
Starts: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Literary, Art & Music Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
With this tour of museums, get to know the city from a cultural and ethnographic point of view.
São Paulo is the capital of arts with dozens of museums and exhibits that cover all forms of art. It has a countless source of discoveries for Art lovers such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, drawings, printmaking, design, crafts, photography and others.
Take advantage of the one-on-one experience of a private tour while the guide sheds light on the city’s best art museums and galleries.
Visit the São Paulo Museum of Art which was the first modern art museum in Brazil and houses the largest collection of European art in South America.
Next, get cross Paulista ave admiring its modern skyscrapers heading to Ibirapuera Park. Once in Ibirapuera, visit three outstanding art museums that are Afro Brasil, Contemporary Art and Modern Art.
You can also customize the itinerary choosing from the most diverse museums presented below on the “what to expect section” and make your own list.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP, Avenida Paulista 1578, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 01310-200 Brazil
We start at the São Paulo Museum of Art, also known as MASP. Did you know it was the first modern art museum in Brazil?
The iconic building designed by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi houses the largest collection of European art in South America. In its rooms, find more than 11,000 works of art from renowned artists like Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others have their art shown at MASP.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Parque Ibirapuera, Avenida Pedro Alvares Cabral Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 04094-050 Brazil
Then go to Ibirapuera Park, the green lung of São Paulo. The park was elected by the “The Guardian magazine” the best Park in the world. The three outstanding art museums MAC, MAM and Afro-Brazil museum played a big role on the deserved winning election of the park.
Tour the main areas of the park, such as the famous auditorium designed by Oscar Niemeyer. You will be impressed by its avant-garde architecture!
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Museum of Contemporary Art – MAC USP Ibirapuera, Passarela Ciccillo Matarazzo 3 Piso Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 04094-010 Brazil
MAC – Contemporary Art Museum has a collection of more than 10000 pieces of paintings, sculptures, drawings, carvings and photographs of international and national artists. Works by international artists like Picasso, Paul Klee, Modigliani, Miro, Kandinsky and more.
National artists like Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, Candido Portinari, and contemporary artists has also their masterpieces as well. On the top floor of MAC building has an open-air 360° viewpoint that visitors can see the infiniteness of São Paulo as no other place.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Parque do Ibirapuera Portao 3, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 04094-000 Brazil
From MAC stroll to MAM, the Modern Art Museum that is just next door.
See the building designed by the renowned architect Oscar Niemayer. MAC has in its collection about 5000 art pieces, and displays the majority of Brazilian artists from the second half of the 20th century.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Afro Brazil Museum, Avenida Pedro Alvares Cabral Parque Ibirapuera, Portao 10, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 04094-050 Brazil
We’ll then visit the Afro Brasil Museum, an institution that pays homage to the African roots of Brazilian culture and recalls its darkest moments. We will look at photos, documents, ceramics and artwork from different parts of Africa, Cuba, Haiti and even the United States.
Duration: 40 minutes
Stop At: Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Praca da Luz 2, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 01120-010 Brazil
Finish the tour with a flourish driving to State Art Gallery (Pinacoteca) that has in its collection some of the most important and relevant pieces of Brazilian art, with more than 8000 paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration: 1 hour
