Aveiro - Museu de Aveiro

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Museu de Aveiro Description

Opposite the Catedral de Sao Domingos in Aveiro is the former Dominican convent, the Convento de Jesús, which houses the Museu de Aveiro. The daughter of King Afonso V, Infante Joana, entered this convent in 1472 against her father's wishes. She died here in 1490 at the age of only 38 and was buried in the convent church. Her readiness to endure privation and her renunciation of all privileges won her many admirers, and she is now much revered as the town's patron saint.

The Museu de Aveiro was installed in the church, cloisters and other convent buildings in 1911. It provides an excellent and almost complete survey of Portuguese Baroque art, as well as showing pictures of the 15th to 18th centuries, sculpture and archeological

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Hobbies & Activities category: Archeological exhibit, museum; Paintings, art collections; Historic site; Historical museum; Christian sites; Architecture - Baroque or Rococo; Tombs, burial site

Address

Museu de Aveiro
Rua de Santa Joana Princesa
Aveiro
Portugal

Hours



Open	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed		12:30	12:30	12:30	12:30	12:30	12:30
Open		14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00
Closed		17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Good Friday - Christian Anniversity of the Revolution - Portugal (April 25) May Day / Labor Day (May 1) National Day - Portugal (June 10) Corpus Christi - Christian Assumption Day - Christian (August 15) Republic Day - Portugal (October 5) All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1) Independence Day - Portugal (December 1) Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8) Christmas - Christian (December 25)