Best Museums of São Paulo with Panoramic Sightseeing – With Tickets

São Paulo, Brazil

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

  • Explore the best museums of São Paulo in the company of an expert

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Tour type: Private tour.

Live guide & available language: Español, English, and Português.

Tour Operating Hours: Book this tour between 07:30 to 07:30, 09:30 to 14:00.

Transport: Fully-equipped hatchbacks, sedans, minivans, vans and minibus according to you group size.

Instant confirmation: Yes, from Tuesday through Sunday.

Tour start location / Final tour location: Pick-up and drop-off in São Paulo, coast and countryside are included like hotel, airport or port.

With this tour of museums, get to know the city from a cultural and ethnographic point of view.

After pick-up at your hotel, combine São Paulo’s best art museums with a panoramic sightseeing passing by the major Sao Paulo’s sights.

São Paulo is the "capital of arts" with dozens of museums and exhibits that cover all forms of art. It has an inexhaustible source of discoveries for Art lovers such as paintings, sculptures, architecture, drawings, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, architecture and others.

Visit the São Paulo Museum of Art which was the first modern art museum in Brazil. The iconic building designed by Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi houses the largest collection of European art in South America.

Next, get along Paulista avenue admiring its modern skyscrapers heading to Ibirapuera Park. Once in Ibirapuera, you can decide to visit one or even three (according to the chosen tour duration) of the outstanding art museums in the park that are Afro Brasil, Contemporary Art and Modern Art.

Finish the tour with a flourish visiting the State Art Gallery that has in its collection some of the most important and relevant pieces of Brazilian art. 

The proposed itinerary can take from 4 to 8 hours depending on your willingness to explore and availability. To meet your needs, you can also decide on the number of people in your group, pick-up and final drop-off locations, pick-up date and time, and language. If you take a shorter tour, the number of visits should be reduced according to the number of hired hours, but all in accordance with your interests.   

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 Suggested itinerary

These below museums are simply suggestions. The actual tour can be personalized by the guide according to your preferences and available time. 

State your preferences in the “OBSERVATION BOX” further during the booking or simply talk directly to the guide onsite on the day of the tour.

 Notice that some of the suggested activities charge admission fees that are NOT covered for the given rate here.  Meals and drinks are NOT covered as well. 

  Click on the " " sign for a little insight of the sight or place and picture.

MASP - São Paulo Art Museum

Head towards MASP, customers will be presented to the treasures of renowned artists like Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others have their art shown at MASP. It is considered the most important museum in the Southern Hemisphere. 

    

Ibirapuera Park & Afro-Brasilian Museum

Then go to Ibirapuera Park, which was elected by the “The Guardian magazine” the best Park in the world. The three outstanding art museums MAC, MAM and Afro-Brazil museum with their great art, played a big role on the deserved winning election of the park. 

Visit the Afro-Brasilian Museum, an institution that pays homage to the African roots of Brazilian culture and recalls its darkest moments. We will look at photos, documents, ceramics and art from different parts of Africa, Cuba, Haiti and even the United States.

  

MAC - Contemporary Art Museum

MAC has a collection of more than 10000 pieces of paintings, sculptures, drawings, carvings and photographs of international and national artists. Works by international artists like Picasso, Paul Klee, Modigliani, Miro, Kandinsky and more. National artists like Lasar Segall, Di Cavalcanti, Candido Portinari, and contemporary artists has also their masterpieces as well. 

On the top floor of MAC building has an open-air 360° viewpoint that visitors can see the infiniteness of São Paulo as no other place. 

  

MAM - Modern Art Museum

From MAC stroll to MAM just next door. See the building designed by the renowned architect Oscar Niemayer. MAC has in its collection about 5000 art pieces, and displays the majority of Brazilian artists from the second half of the 20th century. 

  

Pinacoteca - State Art Gallery

Finish the tour with a flourish driving to State Art Gallery that has in its collection some of the most important and relevant pieces of Brazilian art, with more than 8000 paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. 

    
 Other Worthwhile Museums in São Paulo

Museu da Casa Brasileira 

The institution dedicates itself to the questions of the Brazilian home of a strong bias in architecture and design. It has two long-lasting exhibitions:

Remnants of the Atlantic Forest & MCB Collection, with photographic and textual panels that correlate the various wood types of the MCB collection with the various native species found in the Atlantic forest, besides presenting a cut of the collection of the institution made up of furniture and objects representative of the Brazilian house from the 17th century to the present day.

“The House and the City”, Crespi Prado’s Collection, which addresses the residential use of the property that now houses the museum through daily life and the trajectory of its original inhabitants.

  

MUBE - Brazilian Museum of Sculpture

MuBE is a private institution of public interest created to promote art in its various segments, sculpture, painting, photography, graffiti, drawing, music, cinema. it hosts an extensive program, with special attention to Brazilian sculptural production. The museum receives annually from 80 to 100 thousand people, to see its collection, to visit its exhibitions, to participate in its educational activities, or to know the architecture of the building. The exhibitions present internationally recognized artists, as well as to open space for the dissemination of new names in the national artistic panorama. 

MIS - The São Paulo Image and Sound Museum

It’s one of the busiest cultural institutions in the city of São Paulo.

Its main objective, since its inauguration until today, is to preserve and document the past and the present of manifestations that are linked to art, image and sound, such as music, cinema, photography, graphic arts, etc. 

Its collection has more than 200 thousand items, and currently has a varied cultural program, aimed at various audiences. It has gained prominence in criticism and in the media for its well-designed exhibitions and great names in contemporary art, cinema, music, and giving space to new artists.

Immigration Museum

In the 19th and 20th centuries, representatives of more than 70 nationalities came to Brazil with the dream of "making America". They arrived in Brazilian lands with the desire to redo their lives working in the coffee plantations and in the industry of São Paulo. 

The Inn of Immigrants became the main place of refuge for more than 2.5 million immigrants who had just arrived an intense ethnic interweaving between 1887 and 1978 when it received for the last time a group of Korean immigrants. The Inn has then been turned into Immigration Museum

The museum presents the memories of those people who came from distant lands, their conditions of travel, adaptation to new works and contribution to the formation of what we now call Paulista identity. (Paulista is gentile for those who are born in the state of Sao Paulo)

  

Pina Station

It’s a museum dedicated to Brazilian Visual Art and its dialogue with the cultures of the world by collecting, studying, preserving, exhibiting and communicating its collections to promote the public’s experience with art, stimulate creativity and the construction of knowledge. It is the city’s oldest art museum.

The Memorial to the São Paulo Resistance is located on the ground floor. The institution is dedicated to preserving the memories of the resistance and the political repression during the two authoritarian regimes Brazil went through in the 20th century. 

Also, located on the first floor there is the “Documentation and Memory Center” as well as the “Walter Wey Library”, which presents a significant collection of visual arts, especially Brazilian art.

    

Football Museum 

The museum was built with a focus on the interaction and history of football, also showing its political and cultural importance in Brazil. The main exhibition is distributed in 15 thematic rooms, narrates in a fun and interactive way how football arrived in Brazil.

The museum has the largest football collections in Brazil. It has the history of all the football stars and teams of all time. Old items like balls, uniforms, trophies. Old footages are also a big attraction, in addition to visiting the Pacaembu stadium.

The visit to the football museum lasts, on average, an hour or an hour and a half.

    

 

 Inclusions

 Transport by fully-equipped vehicles

 Any address pick-up and drop-off are included like hotel, airport or port as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter. 

 Entrance and admission fees.

 Licensed bilingual private tour guide.

 Private driver for groups bigger than 4 people, otherwise the guide drives the vehicle themselves. 

 VAT, all taxes, handling charges, tolls, parking fees during stops, airport / port Greet & Meet service.

 Exclusions

 Meals and drinks.

 Tips. (optional)

 Does the guide pay their own expenses during the tour?

 Yes, the guide’s basic expenses such as meals, drinks and parking lot are paid by themselves on spot. Museums, cultural and some entertaining activities are free of charge for tour guides.  

 The guide may decline to participate in high-priced activities that fall out of the tour budget of a regular tour such as going to fancy restaurants, dance clubs, nightclubs or anything out of a standard tour. In these cases, if customer wishes to have the guide as a permanent companion, the guide’s expenses should be covered by the customer. Otherwise, the guide must wait for the customer just nearby to continue on the tour afterwards.  

 Additional Info

 Confirmation is sent just after the booking is made.

 Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately.

 Tour guide details is sent 1 day before the booking date.

 This tour offers stops en route for pictures, contemplation, exploration, snacks or lunch, and a little shopping for souvenir. 

 Adult pricing applies to all travelers.

 Wheelchair accessibility: As long as the tourist has some mobility then this tour would be suitable.

 On Tuesdays, Pinacoteca (State Art Gallery) does not operate.

 Cancellation Policy

 If you cancel at least 5 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.

 If you cancel between 2 & 4 days in advance of the scheduled departure, there is a 50 percent cancellation fee.

 If you cancel within 1 day of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.

 Pricing & Payment

 The charge is made in Brazilian currency.

 Make a down payment online of either 50% or the total amount. If 50% of the payment is made online as a down payment, the remainder should be in cash directly to the guide on spot.

 Pick-up Location

 Wherever you specify at the time of the booking as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups & drop-offs.

 As it’s a private tour, you choose the best pick-up point that suits your needs.

 Tour Operating Days

 Any day available on the timetable of the “PRICE FORM”, which is from Tuesday through Sunday.

 Museums and other cultural São Paulo activities are closed on Mondays. 

 Departure Time

 Any time available on the timetable of the "PRICE FORM".

 Tour Duration

 The system receives bookings from 4 to 8 hours of “tour guide & vehicle availability”. The key part of our system is the flexibility to book the tour according to your available time, number of people, pick-up and final drop-off locations.

 We don't actually sell a set tour program for a certain number of hours, but instead we sell the number of hours the “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE ” are going to be at your availability to do a certain activity with you. 

 Make sure the number of hours you entered in the “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE AT YOUR AVAILABILITY” field, which is the 2º field on the "PRICE FORM", is enough for you to cover the sights / museums you want to see and the activities you want to do.

 Drop-off Location

 Wherever you specify at the time of the booking as long as the booking system accepts the address you enter. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups & drop-offs.

 As it’s a private tour, you choose the best drop-off point that suits your needs.

 Voucher Info

 You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity. 

 

 AIRPORTS / SEAPORTS ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONS

 Once you have arrived at the airport or seaport there will be a member of our staff (or guide) waiting for you at the arrivals area holding a clear sign with your name on it, they will then escort you to your waiting private vehicle. 

 Our team member will be waiting for you even if the flight / ship is delayed. 

 In the very unlikely situation that the customer is not able to locate our guide, please call our emergency telephone number on the voucher. 

 HOTEL PICK-UP INSTRUCTIONS

 As soon as the tour guide arrives at your hotel, they get the front desk to call you in the room in case you are not at the lobby.

 In the very unlikely situation that you are not able to locate our guide, please call one of our emergency telephone numbers that are on the voucher.

 Requirement of "list of pax" & "passport or ID numbers" for taking highways with vehicles with more than 15 seats

 For long-distance trips, we may have to ask the state or federal road department authorization for taking open highways with big vehicles like vans and buses. Thus, in order to do that, it's required the list of all passengers and their passport or ID numbers at the time of the booking (Send it via e-mail after the booking). Therefore, it’s extremely important to book tours with long-distance pick-ups or drop-offs with at least 24 hours in advance.

 If big vehicles like a van or a bus is traveling without the required documents and the police pulls it over, the trip cannot continue. 

 For local pick-ups or drop-offs like airport or nearby cities, there is NO need of such list and passport or ID numbers.

 Such requirement is not necessary for small vehicles like sedans, minivans and SUVs.

 Vehicle models

 The assigned vehicle is according to the number of passengers for the tour. The vehicles are all fully-equipped and suitable to fit you and your group comfortably. 

 Hatchback vehicles 

 Midsize sedans

 Minivans

 15-seater vans

 19-seater vans

 29-seater minibus

Veículos GREGTUR

 

 Please, read these frequently asked questions before booking. 
 When does the hired number of hours start to be counted?

 Count starts from the pickup moment, no matter where you are.

 Do I pass by or visit all the listed sights in the suggested itinerary?

 The tour coverage depends on the number of hours hired by customers ranging from 4 to 8 hours, where in 8 hours you must be able to cover 3 or 4 museums in the suggested itinerary. If you want to go beyond visiting the other suggested museums, it may be a good idea to book two days.

 In case tourists want to have more stops for any reason or spend more time at a sight / museum, it should impact on the tour coverage reducing the number of seen sights / museums.

 The tour coverage depends on the tour rhythm as the guide goes at your pace, and also pretty much on the pick-up and drop-off locations.

 Other adversities may also slow down the tour progress such as traffic jam, and the group size that determines the size of the vehicle. Bigger vehicles assigned for bigger groups tend to be slower, and thus cover less ground and sights.   

 What if I am in a city far away from São Paulo and want to take this tour?

 Just fill out the “PICK-UP” and “FINAL DROP-OFF” location fields to have the price for the tour guide to pick you up wherever you are, take you on the tour, and return you back to your place afterwards. The booking system may automatically reject too long-distance pick-ups and drop-offs, as the tour may NOT be worth taking because of the trip time to the city of the tour. In this case, you can either select closer locations or get in touch with us for options.

 On the price form, what’s the field “GUIDE & VEHICLE AVAILABILITY” for?

 This field is to specify the number of hours the licensed private “TOUR GUIDE & VEHICLE” will be at your availability. The count starts from the pickup moment the tour has been set to get started at your hotel, airport, port or any address you have chosen. 

 What time range is it recommended to take the tour? Or what time should the tour start?

 Any time available on the timetable of the "PRICE FORM". However, as São Paulo has a lot of traffic on weekdays, it's advisable to take this tour between 9:30AM and 17:00 at the most. 

 The museums usually start their operation at 10:00.

 It's also a good idea to avoid getting around in São Paulo on weekdays after 18:00 as traffic is awful.

 Does the tour guide always pick the customers up at their places?

 Yes, always. Sometimes, other than the tour guide, there is also a driver depending on the number of people.

 Can I personalize the tour according to what I want to see?

 Yes, private tours are totally personalizable according to your interests and likes. Talk directly to the tour guide about your wishes or state / type them in the “BOOKING OBSERVATION BOX” further during the booking process.  

 Do other unknown tourists join the tour with me? Or is this tour in group or private?

 The tour is totally private and exclusive for you and your group. No other person out of your group must join your tour, unless it's invited by you.

 Who drive me during the tour throughout the city?

 The tour guide themselves drives the vehicle in case of groups with up to four people. Groups bigger than four people have also a driver along with the tour guide.

  Does the guide pay their own expenses during the tour?

 The guide’s basic expenses such as meals, drinks and parking lot are paid by themselves on spot. Museums, cultural and some entertaining activities are free of charge for tour guides. 

 The guide may decline to participate in high-priced activities that fall out of the scope of a regular tour such as going to fancy restaurants, dance clubs, nightclubs or anything out of a standard tour. In these cases, if customer wishes to have the guide as a permanent companion, the guide’s expenses should be covered by the customer. Otherwise, the guide must wait for the customer just nearby to continue on the tour afterwards. 

 What does the tour guide talk about?

 The guide for this tour should have knowledge about museums and art to help you discover history, interesting stories and distinctive artistic expressions of all kinds.

 All tour guides have complete knowledge about the city sights, culture, history, and social-economic aspects of São Paulo and Brazil. Some guides are experts on architecture, street art, music, local crafts and design, fashion, cycling, hiking, photograph, business, sports, LGBTQ culture, nature, religion, shopping, gastronomy, art, nightlife, and other topics. If you want a deeper understanding of a specific topic, please state / type your interests in the “BOOKING OBSERVATION BOX” further during the booking process.  

 What if I arrive at the airport or port, does the tour guide wait for me at the arrivals area of the terminal?

 Once you have arrived at the airport or seaport, there will be a member of our staff / guide waiting for you at the arrivals area holding a clear sign with your name on it, they will then escort you to your waiting private vehicle.

 When does the "tour count" of hours start when I arrive at the airport or port?

 The "tour count" of hours starts to run from the time the tour guide meets the tourist.

 Our staff / guide will be waiting for you even if your flight / ship is delayed, without extra charges.

 What’s the minimum and maximum number of people can I hire a city tour for?

 The tour can be hired for 1 person up to 26 people.

 It's also possible to tour in São Paulo with groups higher than 26 people, but it's not ideal as bigger buses have restrictions and limitations for getting around in town.

 If you have groups with more than 26 people, the ideal is to make two bookings splitting the group and using two vehicles plus two tour guides. 

 Does the company have references or reviews of other tourists who hired GREGTUR?

 Yes, we have been delivering tours since 2010, and car services since 1998. We have hundreds of customers who left reviews & comments on our TRIP ADVISOR & FACEBOOK pages.

 GREGTUR is the number 1 company on the TRIP ADVISOR rank among hundreds of other tour companies.

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