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Military Police Museum of the State of São Paulo

Military Police Museum of the State of São Paulo, Police museum in Bom Retiro district, São Paulo, Brazil.

The Military Police Museum of the State of São Paulo occupies a 478.96 m² building designed by Ramos de Azevedo in 1896 as the Military Hospital of the Public Force. It retains Scots pine doors and windows, ceilings over 4.5 m high, a Carrara marble staircase, French stained glass windows, and Portuguese hydraulic tiles. Exhibition rooms cover 105.2 m², and a 668.62 m² shed stores large objects and most of the vehicle collection.

Created on 11 August 1958 by Decree no. 33.392 during Jânio Quadros's governorship, the museum was first called "Museu Militar de São Paulo" and answered to the State Education Secretariat. On 27 April 1976, under Paulo Egydio Martins, it passed to the Secretariat of Public Security and was placed under the Military Police. It took its present name on 25 July 1994, and after renovations it reopened on 24 February 2017.

The museum's name changed in 1994 to cover extinct forces such as the Maritime and Air Police, the Women's Police, the Night Guard and the Special Police. Guided visits are offered to museologists, teachers, students and older visitors, and pieces have been lent to the Museu do Ipiranga for shows on the 1906 French Mission in the Public Force.

The museum occupies a 478.96 m² building within the military complex around the former Permanentes Headquarters, now the 1st Shock Police Battalion, in the Luz area bordering Bom Retiro. Exhibition rooms cover 105.2 m² and the library 91.52 m²; the rest is reserve and administration. Because space is limited, about 4% of the collection is on permanent display, and large objects and most vehicles are kept in a separate 668.62 m² shed.

Only about 4% of the roughly 10,000-piece collection fits in the 105.2 m² of exhibition rooms; the rest sits in a technical reserve and in a 668.62 m² shed that holds the large objects and most of the vehicle collection, including animal-drawn vehicles.

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Rua Dr Jorge Miranda, 308, Luz, 01106-000, São Paulo, SP
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-23.53171,-46.62883
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