The idea behind creating the Presidential Museum was to bring the President closer to the citizens he represents by opening up the Belém Palace, his official residence, to the public. The long-lasting aims that the Museum seeks to fullfil are, therefore, cultural and civic. Situated in the Belém Palace, the Museum strives to offer its […]
The Oriente Museum is located in a 1940s building in the Alcântara Dock, with a privileged location next to the River Tagus. It aims to chart the historic relationship between Asia and Portugal – the first country to reach distant Oriental ports. The Museum is structured around two major permanent exhibitions. The 1st floor houses […]
This museum is housed in a 17C palace and in a building that stands on the site of a 16C Carmelite convent, of which all that now remains is a Baroque chapel. It is one of the most important Portuguese museums and has a magnificent garden overlooking the River Tagus. There are some remarkable paintings […]
Mannerist church from the 17th c., modified in the 18th c. in baroque style. Photo: www.patrimoniocultural.pt
This majestic triumphal arch, the noble gateway onto the interior of the “Downtown”, was planned in the time of the Marquis de Pombal to finish off the northern side of the Praça do Comércio. However, it was only begun in 1862 and finished in 1873. The monument features a set of allegoric symbols such as […]
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Housed in the Fortress of Peniche, the former political prison of the pre-revolutionary “Estado Novo” (New State), the Peniche Museum has a section dedicated to the anti-fascist resistance movement, as well as collections of archaeology (consisting of the finds made in the Furninha cave), underwater archaeology, malacology, the artistic estate of the architect Paulino Montez, […]
The Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Peniche Museum Centre is composed of the Igreja da Irmandade (Church of the Brethren) and its outbuildings. The walls of the main section of the church are lined with 55 paintings that, together with others on exhibition, represent an important collection of 17th-century regionalist painting. Attention is drawn in […]
The building housing this museum was originally known as the old “Caza Real” (Royal House), so-called because it was there that the queen Dona Leonor was afforded “assistance”. The museum reveals the memories of the institution and the urban space that developed around it. Its collection consists of paintings, sculpture, woodcarving, gold and silverware, religious […]
The museum, dedicated to the work of José Malhoa, was created in 1933, a few months before the painter’s death, and housed temporarily in the Casa dos Barcos, in the Parque Dom Carlos I, graciously provided and improved by the Spa Hospital. The following year, the architect Paulino Montês presented a design for the museum […]
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Reborn out of the wreckage of the 1755 earthquake, this lovely Lisbon square marks the northern reach of the Pombaline Downtown. It stretches out in a quadrilateral form dominated by the neo-classical harmony of the D. Maria II Theatre, built on the site of the former House of the Inquisition. According to the Marquis of […]