Furnished rooms
As she lived.
Governo do Estado de São Paulo — CC BY 2.0 · Governo do Estado de São Paulo — CC BY 2.0 · Governo do Estado de São Paulo — CC BY 2.0 · Governo do Estado de São Paulo — CC BY 2.0 · Governo do Estado de São Paulo — CC BY 2.0
In the quiet Jardim Europa district stands the house the architect Alfredo Ernesto Becker designed in the 1950s for the collector Ema Gordon Klabin (1907-1994), purpose-built to hold her collection and set in a 4,000-square-metre garden by Roberto Burle Marx. Ema was the younger sister of Eva Klabin, whose house museum is in Rio, from a family of Lithuanian immigrants who founded one of Brazil's biggest paper companies. In 1978 Ema set up the foundation that keeps more than 1,500 pieces spanning periods of Western art history, from Greek and Etruscan civilisations to works of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian and French schools, with pieces from Asian, African and pre-Columbian cultures, Brazilian art from colonial times to the first modernist generations, and a library of rare books. The house is visited on guided tours at set times, with the pieces arranged in the rooms as in their owner's lifetime. Check visiting times and prices on the foundation's website. The MuBE sculpture museum is a few steps away.
As she lived.
Dutch, French, Italian.
4,000 m².
Rua Portugal 43, Jardim Europa, São Paulo
MuBE (Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology)MuBE is a private cultural institution that opened in May 1995 to show sculpture2 minutes walk4.5
Monument to the BandeirasAt the northern entrance to Ibirapuera Park stands São Paulo's best-known monume21 minutes walk4.6
Ibirapuera PlanetariumThe Ibirapuera Planetarium, officially the Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetar24 minutes walk4.3Ema and Eva were sisters of the Klabin family, and each left a house museum: Ema's in São Paulo and Eva's in Rio de Janeiro.