Mario de Andrade Public Library

Mario de Andrade is the largest public library in São Paulo. The cultural center was named after Mario de Andrade, the founder of Brazilian modernism, writer and poet.

The public library was built in 1925 in the historic center of São Paulo and is the most important scientific building in the city. The architectural structure was built in the popular Art Deco style for that period. There are several branches of the Mario de Andrade library in other cities.

The purpose of the library is to acquire foreign and local poets, artists and writers in the collection of contemporary art. Since 1958, Mario de Andrade has been listed as a United Nations Library Depository. The collection of the institution has about 3.2 million items of storage, including more than sixty thousand ancient maps, books, engravings and incunabules created in the XV-XIX centuries.