Museu Paulista

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Museu do Ipiranga in Ipiranga village, Sao Paulo city, Brazil
Museu do Ipiranga in Ipiranga village, Sao Paulo city, Brazil

The Museu Paulista of University of Sao Paulo, best known as Museu do Ipiranga, is one of the most important museums in Brazil. A historic museum, it contains a collection of objects, mobiles and art with historic relevance, especially those that have a relationship to the era of Brazilian independence.

The best known object in the collection is the 1888 painting Independência ou Morte (Independence or Death) by Pedro Americo.


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