The Ema Klabin House Museum

Built in the 1950s specifically to hold one collector's art, the former home of Ema Gordon Klabin (1907–1994) in São Paulo's Jardins district still displays that collection in the setting designed for it. Architect Alfredo Ernesto Becker planned the house, and a garden of about 4,000 square metres by the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx surrounds it.

More than 1,500 pieces cover a wide span of art history, from Greek and Etruscan works to Dutch, Flemish, Italian and French masters. Asian, African and pre-Columbian art also feature, alongside Brazilian works from the colonial period to the first generations of modernists. The library holds rare books, from illuminated manuscripts to incunabula, the books printed in Europe's first decades of printing.

Klabin, a collector and philanthropist, created the institution to preserve and display her collection and to promote cultural, artistic and scientific activities. It was officially established in 1978 as a private not-for-profit foundation, the Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation (Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin).