São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, Audio-visual museum in Pinheiros, Brazil.

The São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound is housed in a dedicated building in the Pinheiros neighborhood that displays films, recordings, photographs, and design works. The galleries feature rotating exhibitions that explore different aspects of moving image, sound, and visual media across multiple formats.

The museum was established in 1970 by Brazilian intellectuals who saw the need to document the country's film, music, and visual culture. Over the decades, it became a major research center and repository for understanding media development in Brazil.

The museum keeps an oral-history programme, recording testimony from figures of Brazilian music, cinema and radio, and its LabMIS centre runs an artist-in-residence programme for new media. Its collection of more than 350,000 items covers films, videos, records, photographs and graphic design.

The museum has a research library and multiple gallery spaces dedicated to different aspects of media and sound. Plan to spend a few hours here to properly explore the collections and current exhibitions on display.

The museum keeps a program transcribing and documenting oral tradition, and LabMIS, a research and production center for new media with an artist-in-residence program. Its collection of more than 350,000 items covers shorts, features, documentaries, videos, records, photographs and graphic design.