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Museum of Immigration of the State of Sao Paulo
Rua Visconde de Parnaiba, 1316 | Mooca, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil Phone: +55 (11) 2692-1866About
Located in Bras, a Sao Paulo neighborhood whose origin is closely associated to the arrival of Italian workers and their families in the 19th century, the museum headquarters is the former Immigrants' Lodge, built between 1886 and 1888, where newly arrived immigrants could stay for up to eight days before moving on to their final destination in Brazil. The complex of which the museum is a part still plays a crucial role to immigrants in Brazil today, as it houses Arsenal da Esperança ("Arsenal of Hope"), created in 1996 by SERMIG - Servizio Missionario Giovani, an Italian missionary organization. The building (not open to visitors) in the back of the Immigration Museum has the capacity to assist 1,200 people in a situation of vulnerability, many of them newly arrived immigrants from Africa and other South American countries.
