Luiz Cássio dos Santos Werneck Memorial, Sports museum at Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil
The Luiz Cássio dos Santos Werneck Memorial is a sports museum inside Estádio do Morumbi showcasing over 3,000 trophies and objects from the football club's history. The collection spans two floors across approximately 500 square meters, allowing visitors to walk through decades of achievements and important moments.
The memorial was inaugurated on 28 March 1994 by club president José Eduardo Mesquita Pimenta, after ten months of planning, as the first memorial of a Brazilian football club. Its archive grew from newspaper clippings kept by Vicente Feola, who worked at São Paulo FC for 37 years, and later by Agnelo Di Lorenzo, archive keeper until his death in 2007. In 2004 it was renamed after Luiz Cássio dos Santos Werneck, a former council president and one of the planners of the Morumbi stadium, who died that year.
The memorial is named after Luiz Cássio dos Santos Werneck, a lawyer, board member and former council president who died in 2004 and who, alongside Cícero Pompeu de Toledo, helped conceive the Morumbi Stadium. Its collection began with Vicente Feola, a former kit man, coach and football director who kept newspaper clippings about the club for 37 years.
Access the space through Gate 17 at the stadium, and be prepared for a two-floor layout. Plan enough time to walk through at a relaxed pace and read the information displayed throughout.
The memorial's original entrance was modelled on Greek classical architecture: a simple white pediment flanked by two sets of two red half-columns, plus the club badge and the word "Memorial". The design gave the space the look of a temple. After renovations in 2008 and 2009, the multimedia stations and the cinema room showing goals and victories were removed.
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