Aveiro - Museu de Aveiro

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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 material. The most important exhibits include a portrait of St Joana (15th century) which is attributed to Nuno Gonçalves. In the vestibule of the church, which is richly decorated with talha dourada and azulejos, is the Baroque tomb of St Joana (1699-1711, by Joao Antunes).