Museum of Contemporary Art & its Viewpoint Tour

Museum of Contemporary Art & its Viewpoint. The museum has its new space located inside Ibirapuera Park. It is managed by University of São Paulo and inaugurated in 1963 because Franscisco Matarazzo Sobrinho (same art collector who founded the Modern Art Museum) decided to donate he and his wife’s private collection to the university. The museum is home to one of the biggest art collections (more than 8,000 pieces) of 20th century Western art in Latin America. Featured famous artists are Umberto Boccioni, Marc Chagall, Tarsila do Amaral, Wassily Kandinsky, Anita Malfatti, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Candido Portinari and Ismael Nery. The museum has also one of the most beautiful viewpoint of the city facing Ibirapuera park and its lake other than the only urban coffee plantation of the city inside of the biological institute.