Instituto de Educação Flores da Cunha, Educational heritage building in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Instituto de Educação General Flores da Cunha is a public school on Avenida Osvaldo Aranha, in Porto Alegre, made up of three pavilions: the main building facing the avenue, a gymnasium facing Avenida Setembrina and an early childhood wing facing the central largo of Parque Farroupilha. The two-storey main facade follows a simplified neoclassical design, with Ionic columns at the entrance portico and matching pilasters on the projecting end blocks. The site covers 12,000 m², with 8,500 m² built.

The school was founded in 1869 as Escola Normal da Província and became the region's first teacher training institution. It moved to its current location in Parque Farroupilha in 1937 and gained heritage protection status in 2006.

The school is named after General José Antônio Flores da Cunha, governor of Rio Grande do Sul, who in 1934 ordered the construction of its current building; a 1939 decree gave the institute this name. Its first director was Padre Cacique, and classes initially ran for boys in the morning and girls in the afternoon. From 1939 Florinda Tubino Sampaio, the first woman to head the school, reorganized the chemistry, physics and natural history laboratories.

The complex occupies 12,000 m², with 8,500 m² built, in three pavilions: the main one facing Avenida Osvaldo Aranha, the gymnasium facing Avenida Setembrina, and the early childhood building facing the central largo of Parque Farroupilha. The building closed for renovations in 2016 and was reopened on 19 February 2024, so check current visiting conditions before planning a stop.

The main building was designed by Fernando Corona and built by Azevedo Moura & Gertum in 360 days, under the 365-day deadline set in 1934, at a cost of 2:200$000 paid in cash by the state government. Before becoming a school in 1937, it housed the Pavilhão Cultural of the Exposição do Centenário Farroupilha in 1935.