Library
Mário de Andrade Library
Art Deco library holding millions of rare volumes, once the target of an armed art heist.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Mário de Andrade Library recounts a Sunday morning in December 2025 when two armed men walked into a glass-domed gallery holding thirteen rare prints — eight Matisse engravings from the Jazz series and five Cândido Portinari illustrations for Menino de Engenho — and held a guard and an elderly couple still while they worked. It follows the theft itself, inside a 1942 Art Deco landmark that is also a United Nations documents depository. Stand at the same front doors the men used and look up at the dome above.
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