Museu Paulista

The Museu Paulista ( Museu do Ipiranga ) is a museum in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.

History

The museum was as a monument to the independence of Brazil from Tommaso Gaudenzio Bezzi Italian engineer whose design was adopted in 1881, three years later by the provincial government, planned and built by the Italian architect Luigi Pucci also between 1885-1889. The building is a palace in neo-classical ( eklektistischen ) style, which is designed according to the simplified ideal model of a Renaissance palace. An elegant, provided with porticoes central building with two large side wings characterize the building. The total length of the façade is 123 meters. The realized building is not the original, in the museum model. This provided an additional degree tract before on each side.

It can be assumed that practically the entire building team of Italians was ( who were involved in many other major projects of that time in São Paulo ), as the Brazilians who still built at the time in a traditional reed technology, probably not enough professionals to realize such a monumental building stone could move in together.

1889, the building was declared over, although the staircase and the entrance hall were not finished, because the necessary materials had not arrived in time from Italy. These will be completed shortly thereafter.

The museum displays with a pool of 125,000 objects an ethnological - historical exhibition about Brazil and in particular a section on the history of São Paulo, among other things, a model of the city in 1841 has. The museum is part of the University of São Paulo and is a research and teaching very active. The original cornerstone of the collection is the inventory of the former Muséu Sertorio, which belonged to the Supreme Joaquim Sertorio, and was acquired by Francisco de Paula Mayrinck 1890 as a gift to the state of São Paulo by this. The Museu Paulista as an institution was founded in 1893 by a law into being, and the collection Sertorio was brought out in 1894 in the Museum Palace.

The grand opening of the Museu Paulista took place on 7 September 1895. The first director was the German scientist Hermann von Ihering, who contributed significantly to the creation of the museum.

Over the years the palace was provided with additional decorative elements. In particular, two originating from the hand of the Italian sculptor Luigi Brizzolara large statues of the Bandeirantes António Raposo Tavares and Fernão Dias Paes were erected.