Oporto - Soares dos Reis National Museum

(Local Name: 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.

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.