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Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo, one of the major Sao Paulo Tourist Attractions, is a must visit for you while you travel to Sao Paulo. Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo, housed within the Nossa Senhora da Luz convent, boasts of a grand collection of around 11,000 items including statues, pictures and furniture of the colonial period dating back to the 16th to 19th centuries.

Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo stands in the grounds of a monastery on a busy road. The building is set to one side of a church that is a regular place of prayer for the city-centre workers. The on-site convent was founded in 1774. Generally, it is considered that the best places to view and experience examples of the magnificent baroque and rococo art are the Bahia or Minas Gerais in Brazil. And, the place next to these two, boasting fine specimens of the grand art forms is the Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo. The museum holds a huge collection of 4,000 wooden and terra-cotta masks, jewelry and liturgical objects on display from all over the country and especially from Minas Gerais and Bahia. The items date back to the17th century as well as include objects of contemporary art.

Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo holds what was rescued from the fire that gutted the former Basilica de Sao Paulo, the most important Christian monument of Asia. Visitors will find among the displays items which date back to the 16th century and it includes a collection of crucifixes and other religious relics. Apart from these, there are statues and sacred art works including a painting of the Archangel St Michael. The Centre stage is a silver statue carrier and it was used in ancient times to exhibit Our Lady of Remedies on processions.

The best thing about Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo which will surely delight you is the fact that the museum boasts of a large number of exhibits and lots of information in English. There is even an English-speaking tour guide. If you are interested in Catholic religion, rites and the lives of the saints and nuns, then you will have a great time here. The museum has a grand collection of colorful wooden and clay figures of saints and Virgin Maries from churches across Brazil many of which date back to the 17th century, gold monstrances and silver processional crosses.

Among the must-see items at the Museum of Sacred Art, Sao Paulo, there are an oratory made from a codfish crate in the 1950s, a life-size and mustachioed St George in a suit of armor and a rather queer life-size St Peter dressed as pope, with beehive hat and triple cross.

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