Built in 1945, this big yellow Palladian villa was long the home of Fábio da Silva Prado, the patriarch of one of São Paulo’s leading establishment families. Inside the museum displays the usual assortment of haute-bourgeois artifacts: ornate jacaranda-wood furniture, fancy porcelain, silver plates, the token oil painting by Portinari. If you’ve seen similar collections elsewhere — like at Rio’s Museu Chácara do Céu — there’s no need to come here. If you missed out, the standard collection is well displayed in this museum. The lithographs of 18th-century Rio in the staircase are a nice bonus.