Mário de Andrade Library - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Mário de Andrade Library - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Mário de Andrade Library (in Portuguese: Biblioteca Mário de Andrade; BMA) is the largest public library in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Encarta . Retrieved on 2009-06-12. Archived 2009-11-01. Founded in 1925, with a donation of holdings by the library of the city's Câmara Municipal, it became one of the most important cultural institutions in Brazil, as well as one of the leading research libraries in the country. It is named in honor of Mário de Andrade,Robert Wedgeworth. World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services, p. 45. Retrieved on 2009-6-12. one of the founders of Brazilian modernism. It is housed in an Art Deco building in the historical downtown, considered one of the icons of this style in the city. Read more on Wikipedia
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