Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS)

This guide to the Museu da Imagem e do Som in São Paulo starts with industrialist Affonso Giaffone's walled mansion on Avenida Europa, sealed shut to the street for decades until the state expropriated it in the early 1970s and handed it to a museum that had spent its short life homeless, bouncing between a shabby office, a former governor's palace, two townhouses, and a stranger's living room. Architects Roberto Fasano and Dan Juan Antonio gutted the private rooms and rebuilt them as public ones.