Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo

The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo is one of the most important art museums in the city of São Paulo in Brazil.

It is located in close proximity to the Estação da Luz, the central railway station of the city, was designed in a large brick building, which by Ramos de Azevedo, the major paulista African architect. The building was inaugurated in 1905 and was originally intended to serve as the seat of the " Liceu de Artes e Oficios ". 1911 already, it was converted into a museum by decree.

Since headed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha conversion in the 1990s, in which a mixture of old buildings and modern architectural elements from the building one of the most impressive museums ever made ​​, this institution has become one of the most dynamic in the country.

An annex to the Pinacoteca is the Estação Pinacoteca on the other side of the Estação da Luz; this building is available for exhibitions and houses the Documentation Centre of the Pinacoteca. This was during the military dictatorship of the seat of the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social.

In June 2008, four paintings were stolen ( two paintings by Pablo Picasso and two pictures of Lasar Segall ) at an art theft. A year before disappearing from this museum two more pictures by Pablo Picasso