Paulista Museum
The Museu Paulista ( Museu do Ipiranga , Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo ) is a museum in the Brazilian city of São Paulo .
history
The museum was planned as a monument to the independence of Brazil by the Italian engineer Tommaso Gaudenzio Bezzi , whose design in 1881 was accepted by the provincial government three years later, and built between 1885 and 1889 by the Italian architect Luigi Pucci . The building is a palace in the neoclassical ( eclectic ) style, which is designed according to the simplified ideal model of a Renaissance palace. An elegant central building with porticos and two large side wings characterize the building. The total length of the facade is 123 meters. The completed construction does not correspond to the original model exhibited in the museum. This provided for an additional closure wing on each side.
It can be assumed that practically the entire construction team was made up of Italians (who were involved in many other major projects in São Paulo at the time), as the Brazilians, who at the time were still building using traditional reed technology, probably did not have enough skilled workers to implement one Monumental stone buildings could have contracted.
In 1889 the construction was declared finished, although the outside staircase and the entrance hall had not yet been completed because the necessary materials had not arrived from Italy on time. These will be completed a little later.
With a fund of 125,000 objects, the museum is showing an ethnographic and historical exhibition about Brazil and, in particular, a section on the history of São Paulo. a. owns a model of the city in 1841. The museum belongs to the University of São Paulo and is very active as a research and teaching company. The original cornerstone of the collection is the inventory of the former Muséu Sertório, which belonged to Colonel Joaquim Sertório and was acquired by Francisco de Paula Mayrinck in 1890 as a gift to the State of São Paulo. The Museu Paulista as an institution was established by law in 1893 and the Sertório collection was then moved to the Museum Palace in 1894.
The grand opening of the Museu Paulista took place on September 7, 1895. The first director was the German naturalist Hermann von Ihering , who played a key role in building the museum.
Over the years, the palace building was given further decorative elements. In particular, two large statues of the bandeirantes António Raposo Tavares and Fernão Dias Paes by the Italian sculptor Luigi Brizzolara were erected.
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Coordinates: 23 ° 35 ′ 8.2 ″ S , 46 ° 36 ′ 34.8 ″ W.