Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand – MASP

Founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi, MASP is considered the most important museum of European Art in the southern hemisphere with its collection of over 8,000 works of art, from the 13th century to the present. You can enjoy works from Raphael, Mantegna and Botticelli, Delacroix, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Matisse, Chagall, and several other masters as Velazquez, Van Dyck, Frans Hals and Diego Rivera. Brazilian Art is presented among the earlier works with masterpieces by Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Anita Malfatti and Almeida Júnior. The sculpture collection begins with a work from the 4th century BC, a greek sculpture of the goddess Higeia, and also comprises 73 sculptures of Degas. Also, the museum has pieces signed by Rodin, Ernesto de Fiori and Victor Brecheret.

The museum’s current building at Avenida Paulista was designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi. MASP receives temporary exhibitions from all over the world, and it also offers to the public exhibitions of its collections throughout the year.