Museum of the Portuguese Language (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Museum of the Portuguese Language (Portuguese: Museu da Lingua Portuguesa) is an interactive Portuguese language - and Linguistics/Language Development in general - museum in Sao Paulo, Brazil. It is housed in the Estacao da Luz train station, in the urban district of the same name. 300 thousand passengers arrive and leave the station every day, and the choice of the building for the launching of the museum is connected to the fact that, it was mainly here that thousands of non-Portuguese speaking immigrants arriving from Europe and Asia via the Port of Santos into Sao Paulo got acquainted with the language for the first time. Moreover, Portuguese immigrants must have also got confused with the Brazilian Portuguese variations and/or dialects. The idea of a museum-monument to the language was conceived by the Sao Paulo Secretary of Culture in conjunction with the Roberto Marinho Foundation, at a cost of around 37 million reais.