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LISBON - GULBENKIAN MUSEUM AND GARDENS

https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/

GULBENKIAN GARDENS

The museum is located within a landscaped park, at the intersection of Av. de Berna and Av. António Augusto de Aguiar, in Lisbon

HOW TO GET THERE.

BY METRO: Blue line, Metro station "S. Sebastião" or "Praça de Espanha"

Car Parks (pay): Avenida de Berna and Avenida Visconde de Valbon
Underground car parks, WITH GUARD. Good option to visit Lisbon, if arriving by car. No need to transport and does not risk the safety of your car. The Parking Bern, right next to the Gulbenkian Museum, is open 24 hours a day and has a maximum cost daily 12:40 EUROS. Maximum height of the car: 1.90 mts-Avenida de Berna:
(P) Berna GPS N38.73868 ; W 9.15289
-Avenida Visconde de Valbon

( P ) Valbon GPS N38.73584; W 9.14958
maximum cost daily 14.90 EUROS. Maximum height of the car: 2.00 mts

The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum , also known simply as the Gulbenkian Museum, is a major encyclopedic art museum in Lisbon, Portugal. As part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, one of the wealthiest foundations in the world, the Gulbenkian Museum houses one of the largest private collections of art in the world. It encompasses the art of the world from antiquity forward, and was the private collection of a single man, oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian.

GULBENKIAN MUSEUM

GPS N38.73776 ; W9.15395

The permanent exhibition galleries are distributed in chronological and geographical order to create two independent circuits within the overall tour. The first circuit highlights Oriental art and Classical art on display in the Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian, Persian art from Islamic period, Armenian and Far Eastern art.

The second covers European art with sections dedicated to the art of the book, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts, particularly 18th century French art and the work of René Lalique. In this circuit, a wide-ranging number of pieces reflect various European artistic trends from the beginning of the 11th century to the mid-20th century.

The section begins with work in ivory and illuminated manuscript books, followed by a selection of 15th, 16th and 17th century sculptures and paintings.

Renaissance art produced in Holland, Flanders, France and Italy is on display in the next room. French 18th century decorative arts have a special place in the museum with outstanding gold and silver objects and furniture, as well as paintings and sculptures. These decorative arts are followed by galleries exhibiting a large group of paintings by the Venetian Francesco Guardi, 18th and 19th century English paintings, and finally a superb collection of jewels and glass by René Lalique, displayed in its own room.

The museum is one of the less known jewels in Europe. Gulbenkian's motto was "Only the best", and hence the museum has masterpieces by western European artists as Domenico Ghirlandaio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Rodin, Carpeaux, Houdon, Renoir, Dierick Bouts, Vittore Carpaccio, Cima da Conegliano, Van Dyck, Corot, Degas, Nattier, George Romney, Stefan Lochner, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour, Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Claude Monet, Jean-François Millet, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Frans Hals, Ruisdael, Boucher, Largillière, Andrea della Robbia, Pisanello, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Antonio Rosselino, André-Charles Boulle, Cressent, Oeben, Riesener, Antoine-Sébastien Durand, Charles Spire, Jean Deforges, François-Thomas Germain, and many others.

Some of the works in the collection were bought during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings.

Of the about 6000 items in the museum's collections a selection of around 1000 is in permanent exhibition.

Contacts & Informations

Av. de Berna, 45A / 1067-001 Lisboa
38.7378° N, 9.1535° W
Telf +351 217 823 000

Reception: (+351) 217 823 474 / (+351) 217 823 483

Transport
Subway Blue Line – S. Sebastião or Praça de Espanha
Subway Red Line – S. Sebastião
Buses 713 – 716 – 726 – 742 – 746 – 756
Car parks (pay): Berna Parking (Street: Avenida de Berna) or Valbom Parking (Street: Avenida Visconde de Valbom)

Services e accessibilies
Lift, ramps and toilet facilities for visitors with mobility impairments
ATM and a cloakroom available

Cafeteria/Self-Service (Founder’s Collection)
Wednesday to Monday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays and the following holidays: January 1st, Easter Sunday, May 1st and December 24th and 25th

Self-Service-Cafeteria (Modern Collection)
Wednesday to Monday 10 a.m. to 5.45 p.m.
Closed on Tuesdays and the following holidays: January 1st, Easter Sunday, May 1st and December 24th and 25th
Tel. (+351) 217 822 751

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TIP

500 meters from the exit of the Gulbenkian Museum, at the opposite side of the Praça de Espanha, 200 meters left from Hotel Açores Lisboa there are buses to SESIMBRA (BUS 207). If you visit the museum in the morning, why not spend the rest of the day on a beautiful beach and eat fresh fish for lunch? You can even take a dip or simply strolling barefoot on the sand. AVOID THE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AND THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

PRAÇA DE ESPANHA- BUSES TO COSTA DA CAPARICA AND SESIMBRA
-BUS STOP TO SESIMBRA ( BUS 207 )

GPS N38.73681 ; W9.15955
-BUS STOP TO COSTA DA CAPARICA (BUS 161 and 153 )

GPS N38.73703 ; W9.15926