The Ipiranga Museum stands in São Paulo, Brazil, on the site where Brazil's independence was proclaimed. The Italian architect Tommaso Gaudenzio Bezzi was chosen in 1884 to design the monumental building, which is about 123 meters long. The museum opened to the public on September 7, 1895.
The Belgian landscape designer Arsenio Puttermans designed the gardens in 1909. In 1922 Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay reorganized the collection for the centenary of independence.
The museum holds furniture, documents, maps and artwork related to the Brazilian Empire. Its best-known work is Independência ou Morte, painted by Pedro Américo in 1888. The museum closed in August 2013 for extensive restoration and modernization, and it reopened to the public in September 2022.
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