Civil Police Museum Of The State Of São Paulo
The Civil Police Museum of the State of São Paulo (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Museu da Polícia Civil do Estado de São Paulo''), also known as the Crime Museum of the Civil Police of the State of São Paulo (''Museu do Crime da Polícia Civil do Estado de São Paulo''), is a public institution located in Armando de Salles Oliveira University City, University City, in the Butantã (district of São Paulo), Butantã neighborhood, on the west side of the São Paulo, city of São Paulo. Its purpose is to preserve a collection composed of documents from police investigations, such as the different weapons used by civilians, typical jailhouse tattoos, traffic tragedies, objects used in crimes and all other situations involving criminality in São Paulo from the 20th century onwards. The museum is located on Campus I of the Dr. Coriolano Nogueira Cobra Police Academy (Acadepol) and its collection contains around 3,000 items. Founded in 1927, it was initially named the Museum of ...
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São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC as an alpha global city, São Paulo is the most populous city proper in the Americas, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the world's 4th largest city proper by population. Additionally, São Paulo is the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment. The city's name honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Jundiaí, Sorocaba and São José dos Campos) created the São Paulo Macrometr ...
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