Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

This guide to the Museu de Arte de São Paulo traces how media magnate Assis Chateaubriand built Brazil's premier art collection in the late 1940s, leaning on the industrialists who advertised in his newspapers to fund it while dealer Pietro Maria Bardi hunted bargains through a broke postwar Europe. It follows the pressure behind acquisitions by Portinari, Rembrandt and Van Gogh, then the museum architect Lina Bo Bardi built two decades later, suspending its galleries between concrete beams over the plaza below. Queen Elizabeth the Second cut the ribbon when it opened in 1968.