COOL MUSEUMS RANKING

São Paulo is house of a bunch of cool museums to visit, each one with a different cool story within their walls. See below a ranking with the 10 Oh So Right museums you must visit when in Sampa.

1° - MIS - Museu da Imagem e do Som

This is the most cool museum in Sampa so far! It is not even fair to compair its coolness with the other Paulistanos museums. After holding plenties of cool exhibitions (including Stanley Kubrick's in 2013 with more than 8383893939 visitors in 3 months), the museum hit the spotlights for São Paulo cultural life and started holding a lot of cool events, such as Vinyl exchange fairs, sunset parties in the museum's garden, cult movies broadcasting for free and so on. Please save some hours to spend in this museum, its content is really rich and Oh So Right!



2° - MASP

More for its outside architecture than for its collection, MASP took place as one of the most popular touristic sights in Sampa. It was built supported by two pillars positioned in the oposite of each other making a gap in its below which is often meeting point for studends from colleges and universities in its around and also for social/polical parades as it is located in the most important avenue of the city, Paulista Avenue. There is also an observation deck in its back side which gives a fair vision of some neighbourhoods towards the center of the city. The "Vão do MASP" (as the gap above the museum is known by the locals, something like "MASP's gap" in a free translation) is house of an old stuff fair which happens every friday with lots of interesting things to buy. On the inside, you can easily find paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and so on. Check the website to see what's on during your visit to the city.



3 - Catavento Cultural

Located in the old center of Sampa inside the building once was the majority of the city, this museum brings a lot of knowledge for childreb and also for adults about biology, chemist, physics and math. There are a lot to learn about the earth and Brazil's fauna and flora within these walls.



4 - Pinacoteca





5 - Museu da Lingua Portuguesa

This museum contains one of the most rich collections regarding Brazil's culture so far. In its permanent exhibition you can find how the portuguese language was born, which words from each lenguage we have adapted to ours and also there is music and images of our culture everywhere. Check the website for more information about the temporary exhibitions that is always focused on great portuguese poets and writers, a truely injection of Brazilian Culture. Don't forget to attend the show in the higher floor, it is really unmissable!



6 - CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil



7 - OCA



8 - Estação Ciência



9 - Caixa Cultural



10 - BIENAL

I ♥ SP

São Paulo is the biggest city in Brazil , with the higher number of museums, exhibitions, concert venues, soccer stadiums, universities, bars and the most incredible nightlife of all Latin America. Everything that comes to Brazil, hits São Paulo first: the best international music concerts, exhibitions, trending fashion and so on. São Paulo is offen called by "the Brazilian New York City". If you like entertainment and nighlife this is the place to be. Come love São Paulo with me! =D

INTRODUCTION TO GRINGOLAND

What is Gringoland? 

Gringoland was designed and created by Rafael Berica in 2014, a passionate traveler who saw in your experiences around the globe the need of seeing the places he visited behind some local's eyes. It is cool to climb the Eiffel Tower but it is equaly awesome to visit the underground catacombs in Paris. It is beautiful to see London from the top of London Eye, but it is even cooler to attend the free walking tour to better understand the streetart all around the city. That is why Gringoland was created, for you to avoid any crap tips from your Gringo friends who can easily put you in a Gringo Trap (please see Trap definition in our 'Donkey's dad' section) in Brazil and help you see the 'Oh So Right' things in here and show you the real and most cool Brazil you could ever meet.

What does 'Gringo' mean at all?

Gringo is a portuguese word (more a slang than a word) used to call foreign people. It doesn't matter if you're from the USA, Germany, Japan, India, Costa Rica, Chile or Australia, in Brazil you will always be treated by GRINGO! It is true that the probability of being called Gringo is higher when you come from north american and european countries, but this distinguition is being lost as the number of Gringos visiting Brazil increases year after year. So, this is great news, isn't it? You didn't even stepped by Brazil and you already have a nickname. What a warm reception! So make yourself home and be welcome, Gringo :)