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Oporto - Soares dos Reis National Museum Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis

Some 500m/550yd northwest of the Campo dos Mártires, in Rua de Dom Manuel II, the Palácio dos Carrancas, built in 1795 as a royal palace, now houses the Soares dos Reis National Museum. The museum's collections are of prehistoric and Roman antiquities, medieval and modern sculpture, pictures, pottery and porcelain, goldsmith's work, furniture and textiles.

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The art collection deserves special mention, including as it does work by the Oporto sculptor Soares dos Reis (1847 99; "O Desterrado", "Inglesa", "Flor Agreste"), and by Teixeira Lopes ("Infância de Caim") and Diogo de Macedo. In the field of painting the 16th C. Portuguese school is represented by Vasco Fernandes and Frei Carlos, the 19th and 20th C. by Henrique Pousao (collection of his principal works), Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, António Carneiro, António Carvalho da Silva Porto, Marques de Oliveira, Aurélia de Sousa ("Self portrait"), Eduardo Viana and Dordio Gomes ("Casas de Malakoff"). Works by non Portuguese artists include pictures by Frenchmen Jean Clouet and Jean Baptiste Pillement.
Address
Soares dos Reis National Museum
Rua D. Manuel II
4050-342 Porto
Oporto
Portugal
Hours
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OpenClosed14:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Close 18:0018:0018:0018:0018:0018:00
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Anniversity of the Revolution - Portugal (April 25)
May Day / Labor Day (May 1)
National Day - Portugal (June 10)
Assumption Day - Christian (August 15)
Republic Day - Portugal (October 5)
All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1)
Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8)
Independence Day - Portugal (December 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Good Friday - Christian (Apr 06)
Corpus Christi - Christian (Jun 10)
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
Guides
Guided tour available as optional extra.
Transit
Buses: 3, 20, 35, 37, 52, 78
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