Museums and Palaces
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Number of results: 204
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de ScrimshawScrimshaw MuseumA must for all visitors to Faial, the Scrimshaw Museum contains a magnificent set of pieces carved from the teeth of sperm whales, with engravings and low reliefs.This is a private collection belonging to the owners of the “Peter (...)
Telephone: +351 292 292 327
Fax: +351 292 391 287
E-mail: peter.pt@mail.telepac.pt
Website: http://www.petercafesport.com
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Grão VascoFounded in 1915 by Francisco de Almeida Moreira, who devoted much of his life to collecting Portuguese works of art, especially those that were representative of the best Portuguese modern and contemporary painters, the Grão Vasco Museum is housed (...)
Telephone: +351 232 422 049
Fax: +351 232 421 241
E-mail: mngv@mngv.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.museunacionalgraovasco.gov.pt/http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/museus-e-monumentos/ (...)
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Museums and PalacesMuseu de Alberto SampaioThe Alberto Sampaio Museum was founded in 1928 to house the art and other objects belonging to the former Collegiate Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira and other churches and convents in Guimarães. It is situated in the heart of the old historic (...)
Telephone: +351 253 423 910
Fax: +351 253 423 919
E-mail: masampaio@culturanorte.pt
Website: http://masampaio.culturanorte.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional de Machado de CastroThe name is a homage by the city of Coimbra, his birthplace, to Joaquim Machado de Castro, the most notable representative of 18th century Portuguese sculpture. The bishop's palace, which houses the collections, retains the fine 12th-century (...)
Telephone: +351 239 482 001
Fax: +351 239 482 469
E-mail: geral@mnmc.dgpc.pt
Website: http://www.museumachadocastro.pt/
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Marítimo de ÍlhavoThis unique museum provides an insight into the admirable and heroic adventure of the cod fisheries, and the remarkable ethnographic richness of the coastal populations, whose character is moulded by the rough seas to which they owe their survival. (...)
Telephone: +351 234 329 990
Fax: +351 234 321 797
E-mail: museuilhavo@cm-ilhavo.pt
Website: http://www.museumaritimo.cm-ilhavo.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Municipal de Tavira / Palácio da Galeria
Telephone: + 351 281 320 540
Fax: +351 281 322 888
E-mail: museu@cm-tavira.pt
Website: http://museumunicipaldetavira.cm-tavira.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Nacional de EtnologiaThe basis for the founding of the National Museum of Ethnology was the 1959 collection of pieces carried out by Jorge Dias, in. He was responsible for putting on the exhibition "The Life and Art of the Maconde People" as part of the Studies Mission (...)
Telephone: +351 21 304 11 60
Fax: +351 21 301 39 94
E-mail: mnetnologia@ipmuseus.pt
Website: http://www.mnetnologia-ipmuseus.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu Arpad Szenes - Vieira da SilvaThis museum's permanent collection includes paintings by Arpad Szenes (1897-1985) and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992), which are housed in the old silk factory founded in 1734, in the reign of D. João V. Beautiful mulberry trees were (...)
Telephone: +351 21 388 00 44 / 53
Fax: +351 21 388 00 39
E-mail: fasvs@fasvs.pt
Website: http://www.fasvs.pt
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Museums and PalacesCentro de Interpretação da Batalha de Aljubarrota - CIBAThe Battle of Aljubarrota Interpretation Centre (CIBA) is a project that has been developed by the Fundação da Batalha de Aljubarrota in order to protect and enhance the heritage of the Military Camp of São Jorge.Located in the village of São Jorge, (...)
Telephone: +351 244 480 060
Fax: +351 244 480 061
E-mail: info.geral@fundacao-aljubarrota.pt
Website: http://www.fundacao-aljubarrota.pt
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Museums and PalacesMuseu dos BaleeirosWhalers’ MuseumGet to know all about one of the most important activities in the history of the island of Pico and the Azores: whaling. At Lajes do Pico, you can now visit the Whalers’ Museum installed in three old houses where the whalers used to (...)
Telephone: +351 292 679 240
Fax: +351 292 672 276
E-mail: museu.pico.info@azores.gov.pt
