Portugal for Travellers and Tourists » Tag Archive » Portugal for Travellers and Tourists https://www.theperfecttourist.com The Perfect Tourist Travel & Tourism eMagazine Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:04:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 The Natural History Museum of Sintra https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2014/07/15/the-natural-history-museum-of-sintra/ https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2014/07/15/the-natural-history-museum-of-sintra/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:42:28 +0000 http://www.theperfecttourist.com/?p=3242 The Natural History Museum of Sintra is located in the Historic Centre of Vila Velha de Sintra, in a building of the nineteenth century, specifically 1893.

In it, one can find a  long duration exhibition, whose genesis was born from the hands of the collector Miguel Barbosa and his wife, Fernanda Barbosa, who, for about 50 years, gathered a unique collection consisting of thousands of fossils of cultural value and scientific incalculable.

 

This Museum has, in addition to the permanent exhibition room, with a Temporary Exhibition prepared to receive many shows and events, with a reservation and Laboratory for the treatment and study of the parts with a small Documentation Service with a specialized  shop and a cafeteria.

The exhibition space has a dynamic presentation using the concepts of furniture and equipment based in modernity, playing also with the use of new technologies.

Free entrance for Tuesday to Friday from 10.00amto to 06.00pm.

On Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 02.00pm to 06.00pm,

Closed on Mondays.

]]> https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2014/07/15/the-natural-history-museum-of-sintra/feed/ 0 Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Ancient Art Museum in Lisbon https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/04/23/museu-nacional-de-arte-antiga-ancient-art-museum-in-lisbon-2/ https://www.theperfecttourist.com/blog/2013/04/23/museu-nacional-de-arte-antiga-ancient-art-museum-in-lisbon-2/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:33:06 +0000 http://www.theperfecttourist.com/?p=658 The National Museum of Ancient Art is the most important museum of art of the twelfth century in Portugal. Includes collections of painting, sculpture, drawing and decorative arts, mostly European, Oriental and also representative of relations established between Europe and the East following the voyages of discovery began in the fifteenth century that Portugal was pioneer nation.


Painéis de Sao Vicente de Fora


Hieronymus Bosch

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