The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Portuguese for "pinacotheca (picture gallery) of the state of São Paulo") is one of the most important art museums in Brazil. It is housed in a 1900 building in Jardim da Luz, Downtown São Paulo, designed by Ramos de Azevedo and Domiziano Rossito be the headquarters of the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts. It is the oldest art museum in São Paulo, founded on December 24, 1905, and established as a public state museum since 1911. After passing through a renovation conducted by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in the 1990s, the museum became one of the most dynamic cultural institutions of the country, lining up with the international circuit of exhibitions, hosting cultural events and keeping an active bibliographic production. "Pina", as the Pina, as the museum is also known, administrates the a space called Estação Pinacoteca (Portuguese for "Pinacoteca Station), or Pina Estação, installed in a old building which was once owned by the DOPS, in Bom Retiro district, where it holds temporary contemporary art exhibitions, the Walter Wey Library and the institution's documentation center, called Documentation and Memory Center. More information...
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