Museum of Fine Arts of São Paulo, University art museum in Vila Mariana, São Paulo, Brazil

The Museum of Fine Arts of São Paulo (MuBA) is a university museum in Vila Mariana, São Paulo, run by the Fine Arts University Center and its foundation, FEBASP. It opened on September 23, 2007, and was officially registered on April 14, 2008. Its collection, gathered since the 1925 founding of the Academy of Fine Arts of São Paulo, covers painting, sculpture, engraving, architecture and design, shown in temporary exhibitions.

The collection began with the Academy of Fine Arts of São Paulo, founded in 1925 by Pedro Augusto Gomes Cardim with support from Mário de Andrade and Menotti Del Picchia. In 1932 the renamed School of Fine Arts took over management of the Pinacoteca do Estado collection, sharing a building and director Paulo Vergueiro Lopes de Leão until 1939. The school moved to Vila Mariana in 1985, and the museum opened there on September 23, 2007, registered on April 14, 2008.

The collection grew out of the teaching of the Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1925: works bought or donated at student exhibitions, plus plaster replicas of famous sculptures used as models for copy studies. Since the 1980s it has also taken in graphic arts and industrial design pieces. The museum is run by the Fine Arts University Center and its foundation, FEBASP.

The museum occupies the Vila Mariana campus of the Centro Universitário Belas Artes, which the school moved into in 1985. The collection is tied to the Luciano Octávio Ferreira Gomes Cardim Library, where it was kept before the museum opened. The Professor Vicente Di Grado Gallery, opened in 1999, hosts contemporary art shows on the same campus.

The museum grew out of a collection begun in 1925, when the Academy of Fine Arts opened on Rua Bento Freitas in Vila Buarque. From 1927 it held periodic student exhibitions, and the works bought or donated then, plus plaster replicas used for copy studies, formed the first core of the holdings. In 1932 the school was even put in charge of the Pinacoteca do Estado's collection, sharing a building and a director with it until 1939.