The Mário de Andrade Library (in Portuguese: ''Biblioteca Mário de Andrade''; BMA) is the largest

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in the city of

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. Founded in 1925, with a donation of holdings by the library of the city's

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, it became one of the most important

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in Brazil, as well as one of the leading

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libraries in the country. It is named in honor of

Mário de Andrade Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (; October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian po ...

, one of the founders of Brazilian

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. It is housed in an

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building in the historical downtown, considered one of the icons of this style in the city. Mário de Andrade Library was the first Brazilian public institution interested in acquiring modern works of art of local and foreign artists (which are placed today in the ''Pinacoteca Municipal'').Biblioteca Mário de Andrade
Retrieved on 2009-06-12. It has been a member of

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depository libraries system since 1958, though it started receiving UN material nine years earlier, in 1949.Vera Lucia Pinheiro da Silva
Informação e cidadania
Retrieved on 2009-06-12. During Sérgio Milliet's administration, the library would have a very large participation in São Paulo intellectual sets. Later, the library would be frequented by academics as

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and Marilena Chaui. Sheltering the second largest bibliographic and documental heritage of Brazil — only after the

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— the Mário de Andrade Library is the depository of all artistic and cultural registers of the city of São Paulo. Its collection includes about 3.2 million items, covering all areas of the

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— amongst which a distinct assemblage of over 60,000

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s, prints, ''brasiliana'' and others, produced between 15th and 19th centuries. The Mário Andrade Municipal Library has branches throughout the city, providing circulating materials to general public.

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Official site

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Biblioteca Mário de Andrade at Google Cultural Institute
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