It houses the most relevant public collection, from the 12th to the 19th century. Painting, sculpture, silver, gold and jewellery, decorative arts – Portuguese, European, African and Oriental.
The main museum in Portugal houses the most relevant public collection, from the 12th to the 19th century.
Painting, sculpture, silver, gold and jewellery, decorative arts – Portuguese, European, African and Oriental –, including the largest number of works classified as “national treasures”.
Among them, The Panels of Saint Vicent, by Nuno Gonçalves, and the Belém Monstrance, symbols of 15th and 16th centuries Portuguese art, and notable paintings by Bosch, Memling, Dürer, Raphael or Piero della Francesca.
The museum has a magnificent garden, with restaurant, over the River Tagus.
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