About the Museum

The Civil Police Museum of the State of São Paulo (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 University City, in the Butantã neighborhood, on the west side of the 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 Police Technique and Crime History, and on April 23, 1930, by Decree No. 4.715, the institution was legally established. Initially, it was only an object of study for Acadepol students, but it became accessible to the entire population, with free admission, in 1952.