São Paulo City Art Collection, municipal art collection in Vergueiro, São Paulo, Brazil

The São Paulo City Art Collection (Coleção de Arte da Cidade de São Paulo) is managed by the Pinacoteca Municipal, created in 1961. Its roughly 2,800 works and six collections of mail art, some 3,500 pieces in all, are kept in the technical reserve of the Centro Cultural São Paulo on Rua Vergueiro, shown in rotating displays in the Sala Tarsila do Amaral and the Gabinete de Papel.

The Pinacoteca Municipal de São Paulo was created on 14 November 1961 under mayor Prestes Maia, drawing on works from the mayor's office, the city council and the arts section of the Mário de Andrade Library. That library section, formed in 1946 by Sérgio Milliet, was Brazil's first public modern art collection. The collection stayed scattered across government buildings until 1982, when the Centro Cultural São Paulo opened on Rua Vergueiro and gave it a home.

The collection grew from the city's early purchases of paintings with São Paulo themes and Brazilian historical subjects, later joined by modern works gathered at the Mário de Andrade Library. Its name comes from the municipal art gallery created in 1961 to manage the city's art holdings. Works are shown in rotating displays in the Sala Tarsila do Amaral and the Gabinete de Papel at the Centro Cultural São Paulo.

The collection is kept in the technical reserve of the Centro Cultural São Paulo on Rua Vergueiro, not on Avenida Paulista. Works are shown in rotating exhibitions in the Sala Tarsila do Amaral, on the Caio Graco floor, and in the Gabinete de Papel, which holds prints and drawings. A conservation and restoration laboratory also operates there.

The collection is managed by the Pinacoteca Municipal, created on 14 November 1961 under mayor Prestes Maia. Its core came from the Gabinete da Prefeitura, the Câmara Municipal and the Seção de Artes of the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, the first public modern art collection in Brazil, set up in 1946.