Museum
Museu da Tatuagem
Cramped downtown gallery of tattoo history, from prison-made needle machines to indigenous body art.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Museu da Tatuagem in Sao Paulo is led by Polaco, the tattoo artist who opened this one-room museum above his own studio in 2004. It centers on a homemade machine built by Russian prison inmates out of a razor blade, a guitar string and a syringe, part of a collection of more than five hundred objects that also includes tools from Lucky Tattoo, the Danish artist who brought Brazil its first electric machine in 1959. Ask Polaco to point out the prison-made piece if he is giving the tour that day.
This audio guide was created using AI.