Pinacoteca and Luz station
The city's oldest museum in a school of 1900, beside a station assembled in England.
Duration
2 hrs – 3 hrs
Best time
Mid-morning
Open
Closed on Tuesday
Entry price
To confirm
The Pinacoteca has occupied a brick building since 1905, put up for a school of arts and crafts and left unfinished — the façades never received their render, and the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha made that flaw the principle of his 1998 renovation, leaving the brick bare and roofing the courtyards in glass.
The collection covers Brazilian art from the nineteenth century to the present. Next door, Luz station was manufactured entirely in England in 1901, shipped out in pieces and reassembled in São Paulo: its clock tower copies Big Ben's, and the coffee that paid for all of it left from these platforms.
Getting there
Luz metro station, blue and yellow lines: the exit gives onto Luz park, between the station and the museum.
What the price covers
paid entry, rate to be checked; free one day a week
Rules on site
The district north of the station, known as Cracolândia, is to be avoided on foot: stay south, between the metro, the park and the museum. The museum closes on Tuesdays.