Arquivo Multimeios (Multimedia File)

Created in 1975, the Multimedia File maintains a collection with over 900 thousand documents. It is composed of visual records (negatives, contacts, enlargements, slides, microforms), audiovisuals (audio tapes, video tapes, movies 16mm/super 8mm) and written documents (catalogues, programmes, brochures, press releases, invitations, posters, publicity photographs, maps, plans, scripts, research texts, etc.).

The material is technically processed and kept in an equipped room with control instruments of temperature, air humidity and pollutant gases, according to preservation norms recommended by international museum institutions.
The themes diversity and the documental originality confer to this file its uniqueness as a source of research. The consultant can also count on services such as material reproduction in paper and photograph duplications.

 

 

Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga (Oneyda Alvarenga Discotheque)

The City Public Record Collection was created in 1935 by Mário de Andrade who was São Paulo Culture Department´s Director at that time. The record library was transfered to the Centro Cultural São Paulo in 1982, and it was named Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, in tribute to the musicologist and folklorist who was its director between 1935 and 1969.

The Record Collection - which includes scholar, popular, national and foreign music - is composed of 45 thousand 78rpm records, 26 thousand 33rpm records and 1500 CDs. The printed collection contains about 62 thousand partitions, 11 thousand music books and a music magazine library with over 1500 subjects.

The historical collection is composed of three funds:

Folkloric Research Mission - set of documents, objects, phonograms, photographs, records and movies registered and collected in the Folkloric Research Mission, carried by Mário de Andrade in 1938, in the North and Northeast of Brazil and other researches made in São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Bahia states. Among the movies are the registers of researches from Claude and Dina Lévi-Strauss in Mato Grosso state;

Etnography and Folklore Society - documentation produced by the Society created in 1936 and the course of Etnography, given by Dina Lévi-Strauss;

City Public Record Collection - historical-administrative documentation of the record collection since its opening, in 1935, until the decade of 1980. It includes monographs, publications, record registrations made by the record collection and documentation of the phonetic study of Portuguese language in Brazil.

 

Pinacoteca Municipal (City Art Gallery)

Coleção de Arte da Cidade (City Art Collection)

The Coleção de Arte da Cidade (City Art Collection) was created by a law in 1961 in order to gather, catalogue and exhibit the São Paulo city art collection. With the creation of the Centro Cultural São Paulo, in 1982, the Visual Arts Department became responsible for the collection. It keeps a great part of the collection in a technical pool, and it manages the works that are exhibited in other locations.

The collection includes works of art from the colonial period and from the nineteenth century, as well as important modernist and contemporary productions. It also counts with works issued from the Acquisitive Awards of the Salão Paulista.

Recently, the collection received expressive donations from contemporary artists. It also got works from young artists who took part in the Acquisition Award of the Exhibitions Program from Centro Cultural São Paulo. Currently, the collection holds about 2800 works of art from different techniques, and six collections of Postal Art, with about 3500 pieces

Among the catalogued works, approximately 70% is composed of productions in paper support, most of them drawings and engravings. There are works from artists such as Tarsila do Amaral, Anita Malfatti, Di Cavalcanti, Portinari, Volpi, Rugendas, Miró, Renoir, Chagall, and others. About 20% of the collection is composed of productions of painters like Frans Post, Almeida Junior, Rebollo, Bonadei, Flávio de Carvalho, Aldemir Martins, Tomie Ohtake and others. Approximately 10% of it are sculptures and works in varied supports (photography, DVD, tapestry, etc.): they are donations from contemporary artists, like Nuno Ramos, Leda Catunda, Alex Fleming and Regina Silveira.

The cataloguing, preservation and informatization process has been concluded, and a book about the collection was published. In the last years, the Centro Cultural São Paulo determined the Tarsila do Amaral Room and the Paper Cabinet, located in the Caio Graco Floor, to keep the exhibitions of the collection.