Palácio Nacional de Mafra, Mafra, Portugal. Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal. As the sole surviving mediaeval royal palace in Portugal, and the residence of the Portuguese royal family until 1910, the National Palace of Sintra can trace its origin back to the beginning of the Muslim period in the Iberian Peninsula.It stands as a living testimony to some of the most successful moments in Portuguese history when the country opened up to new worlds, and its architecture and heritage became marked by the harmonious combination of Gothic, Mudejar and Renaissance elements.The palace’s outward profile has become famous for its two monumental cone-shaped chimneys, while its interior walls are lined with Europe’s largest set of Mudejar tiles still in place today.
It also contains one of the country’s most important heraldic rooms and has some significant collections of decorative arts. The National Palace of Sintra is now managed by the public company Parques de Sintra - Monte da Lua, S.A. Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal. The Ajuda National Palace was declared National Monument under a governmental Decree dated 16th June 1910.
During the first decades of the Republican regime it depended on the Public Treasury and remained the stage of official ceremonies and host of visitors allowed by the Treasury.In 1968 it opened to the public as a house-museum and since the eighties has grown to be an outstanding museological institution within both national and international scenes. From the eighties on, a reconstitution, as accurate as possible, of this royal residence was started, on the basis of rigorous historical research.
In 1996, the program "One Room, One Patron" was introduced, which aimed to recover the palace back to the decorations and settings from the time of D. Palácio Nacional de Queluz, Queluz, Portugal. Located between Lisbon and Sintra, the National Palace of Queluz is one of the leading examples of the rococo and neoclassical architectural styles from the second half of the eighteenth century in Portugal.
Commissioned in 1747 by the future King Pedro III, married to Queen Maria I, the residence was initially designed as a summer house and thus a favoured place for the royal family’s leisure and entertainment but which became their permanent home from 1794 through to their departure for Brazil in 1807, following the country’s invasion by Napoleon’s armies.Grandiose meeting rooms, places for worship and private rooms follow on from each other in an intimate interconnection with the gardens as a fundamental part of these pleasure-inducing surroundings. Along the spectacular Lions Staircase, by the french artist Jean-Baptiste Robillion, we arrive at the monumental Tiled Canal with its great panels depicting seaports and courtly scenes. Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, Lisbon, Portugal. In more than a century of existence, the National Archaeology Museum has become the reference institution of Portuguese Archeology, with regular correspondence with museums, universities and research centers around the world.
The collection of the Museum brings together the initial collections of the Founder and of Estácio da Veiga. Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro, Coimbra, Portugal. MNAA Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal. Created in 1884, and housed in the Palácio Alvor for almost 130 years, the MNAA-Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga has had its current title for more than a century.
It is the home to the most important Portuguese public collection of art, ranging from paintings to sculpture, and gold and silverware, as well as decorative arts from Europe, Africa and the Far East. Comprising over 40,000 items, the MNAA collection has the largest number of works classified by the State as “national treasures”. In its various sections, it also has a number of major works of art in the context of the world artistic heritage. Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal. The Nacional Museum Soares dos Reis, the former Museu Portuense and Portugal's first art museum, was founded in 1833 when Pedro IV decided to establish a Museum of Painting and Prints in Oporto.
His aim was to preserve the artistic heritage of the extinct convents and, simultaneously, promote its cultural and educational role. The Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis collections come from a variety of sources. Works have come from civil, religious, public and private institutions. There have been legacies from provate collectors and acquisitions. From this rich and varied range of pieces, only a selection is on permanent exhibition due to space and coherence of the display.
Museu Nacional do Traje, Lisboa, Portugal. Museu Nacional do Azulejo , Lisbon, Portugal. Museu Nacional de Etnologia & Museu de Arte Popular , Lisboa, Portugal. The National Museum of Ethnology / Popular Art Museum holds in its collections the most relevant ethnographic heritage in Portugal.
It is responsible for the safeguarding and management of nearly half a million items. The museum’s ethnographic collections are divided into two separate groups. Museu Nacional dos Coches, Lisboa, Portugal. The mission of the National Coach Museum is to provide for the promotion, research and conservation of its collections in the firm belief that museums play a central role in the generation of human, social and economic growth.
The recently inaugurated building leads the way in the making of new history for the museum, marked by our endeavour to include all of the necessary elements to accomplish this mission.The new Coach Museum emerges, not only, as a cultural site but also as a public utility space. In the words of the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha “the Museum has no doors and relates to all of its surroundings”. Museu Nacional da Música, Lisboa, Portugal. Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Lisboa, Portugal. Located in the riverside area of Lisbon, The Portuguese Communications Foundations (FPC) was created in 1997 by the founding members ANACOM, CTT and MEO.
The FPC is the guardian of Portugal’s communication heritage and its chief purpose is to conserve and divulge it. It also aims to assert itself as a nationally and internationally recognised cultural and scientific institution that plays an active role in promoting citizenship, literacy, learning and social inclusion.The existing heritage includes a valuable collection of pieces ranging from the 16th century to the present day. This heritage is grouped into the Postal, Telecommunications and Art and Philately collections. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal. The National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado, founded in 1911, was one of the first museums of contemporary art being created throughout the world.
Located in Lisbon’s historical centre, featuring the leading collection of Portuguese art from the second half of the nineteenth century until the present day the museum is of mandatory visit for the understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary Portuguese art. The temporary exhibitions program is of great importance within the overall scope of the museum activities. The presentation of the collection is periodically renewed on their temporal or thematic segments, according to a sustained work of historical and critical research, but the programme is not limited to the Portuguese art, focusing on artists and movements of the international modernism and also monitoring and disseminating contemporary artistic creation, both national and international, through co-productions with other museums and art centers. Museu de São Roque, Lisboa, Portugal. The Museu de São Roque first opened to the public in 1905, located in the former Professed House of the Society of Jesus, a religious house adjoining the Church of São Roque.
This church had been founded in the second half of the 16th century, as the first church of the Society of Jesus in Portugal. It kept the original name of the former shrine of São Roque, which existed in the same location. Casa-Museu Anastácio Gonçalves , Lisboa, Portugal. Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro, Águeda, Portugal. The Dionisio Pinheiro and Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation was born May 5, 1969, by the institution testamentary of the couple, in the city of Águeda - Portugal - with objectives in the fields of Museology (sheltering the Art Collection built during life), Culture (promoting and dynamizing various projects) and Assistance (granting scholarships and academic awards).The June 28, 1985 opened to the public the building Museum / headquarters in Quinta S.
Pedro, belongs to the couple, under project of architect Agostinho Rica. Museu do Caramulo, Caramulo, Portugal. Two brothers, Abel and João de Lacerda founded in the 1950's, a unusual museum in a small town called Caramulo, situated on a mountain in the center of Portugal with a luxuriant vegetation overlooking an 80 km valley, which is the vastest panoramic view of the country. Abel de Lacerda, an art lover, has constructed a building based on the most recent concepts of modern museums so as to exhibit an unusual collection of art: 500 objects that range from sculptures, furniture, ceramics and tapestries from the Ancient Egipt era to Picasso. João de Lacerda, great automobile lover, constructs another building next to the first, intending to exhibit 100 cars and motorbikes that are easily taken in and out of the Museum for maintenance and demonstrations.
Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Lisboa, Portugal. Museu Nacional Grão Vasco, Viseu, Portugal. Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal. The Serralves Foundation currently holds over 4300 works in its collection, of which more than 1700 belong to Serralves with a further 2600 works from various private and public collections on long-term deposit. Deposits that have served as points of reference for the development of the collection include the Collection of the Portuguese Secretariat of State for Culture and the Collection of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD).
The Serralves Collection also includes approximately 5000 artists’ books and editions. Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa / Lisbon, Portugal. The Museu Coleção Berardo presents the most significant artistic movements from the twentieth century to the present day. In this museum, it is possible to find works by artists from the most diverse cultural contexts and with the most varied forms of expression, all of whom would come to make up the art history of the last century. Names such as Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Vieira da Silva, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd and Bruce Nauman, among many others, are presented within the framework of the artistic movements which their works allowed to define through a chronological succession that enables the spectator to take a trip through the period in question.
VISITA VIRTUAL GRATUITA AL MUSEU EGIPCI DE BARCELONA. Visitas Virtuais sobre Portugal.