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Museu do Mosteiro de São Martinho de Tibães
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Rua do Mosteiro, 59
4700-565, Mire de Tibães
A reborn cultural space where one may visit the church, the entrance, the stables, the gardens of Saint João, the cellars pateo, the kitchen, the rooster's pateo, the chaptr's room and more. It exhibits several collections.
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego / Casa Museu Paula Rego
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Avenida da República, 300
2750-475, Cascais
The project Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, designed by the architect Eduardo Souto Moura, consists of 750 m2 of permanent and temporary exhibition area, coffee shop, bookstore and an auditorium with seating for 195 seats. The Museum brings together 121 works, including 16 paintings of the author, provided for a period of ten years, and also some pieces of art from her husband Victor Willing (artist and art critic). In addition to drawings, engravings and lithographs is still possible to admire the beauty of the tapestry piece "battle of Alcácer-Quibir", acquired in 2008 by the municipality through an application at …
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
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Avenida de Berna, 45-A
1067-001, Lisboa
The museum is a result of Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian’s will, an Armenian that gathered more than 6000 works of art during his life, that are now assembled in this beautiful space. It is an impressive collection, covering a temporal space from the ancient Egyptian empire until the XX century. Here are represented different civilizations and hemispheres.
MUDE - Museu do Design e da Moda
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Rua Augusta, 24
1100-053, Lisboa
The CHANGE, Design and Fashion Museum opened its doors to 22 May 2009. Even before the start of work to adapt the former headquarters of the BNU, on Rua Augusta, to their new museological functions, the CHANGE began offering a continuous programming where are present the different perspectives and languages of design.
Museu do Vinho do Porto
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Rua da Reboleira, 33-37
4050-492, Porto
Located at the Cais Novo Warehouses, where the wines of the Companhia Geral de Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro used to be stored, this is a building that was constructed by the family Pinto da Cunha Saavedra in the 1700s. This space shows the privileged location of Oporto, as a commercial outpost, and relates mostly to the Port wine, the transportations, mainly along the Douro river, and the ways of life that were generated from those activities, namely with th coming of several foreign colonies. It has several programs for specific audiences.
Museu Romântico da Quinta da Macieirinha
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Rua de Entre-Quintas, 220 - Casa Tait
4050-239, Porto
The Museu Romântico da Quinta da Macieirinha (romantic museum) re-creates the atmosphere of a wealthy XIX century Porto’s house. The king Carlos Alberto of Sardinia was exiled and spent the last tears of its life in this house. In his memory, some parts of the house such as the bedroom, the living room and the chapel were set up from the aquarelles and lithography of the king’s time.
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Fundação de Serralves
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Rua Dom João de Castro, 210
4150-417, Porto
Integrated in the Fundação de Serralves, this museum planned by the architect Siza Vieira is the first of its kind in Portugal and intends to move the public to the Contemporary Art and to the society questions in our days.
Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis
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Rua de Dom Manuel II, 44
4050-522, Porto
Museum installed at the Carrancas Palace, built at the end of the XVIII century and which was once the royal family residence. It has collections of decorative arts, painting and sculpture. It also integrates a pottery nucleus, with works of faience from the North of Portugal, jewelry, furniture, glass and oriental china works.
Igreja Matriz de Barcos / Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Assunção
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Largo da Colegiada
5120-076, Barcos
Church with a medieval foundation that features baroque architecture. The changes made to it reveal renovations in the main chapel during the Mannerist period. The main altarpiece also has the original granite bench.
Pelourinho de Cano
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Praça da República
7470, Cano
Quadrangular plan with four steps, Manueline style motifs and topped by a cross and weather vane.