Museums
The Wine Museum is integrated in the Madeira Wine Institute and brings together a diverse estate on the cycles of cultivation, production and export of Madeira Wine, as well as a set of paraphernalia and machines picturing the different phases of culture and production of this wine: includes materials that illustrate the history of Madeira […]
João Esmeraldo, Jeanin Esmerandt or Esmenaut, born in Bethume in the county of Artois, came from Bruges to Lisbon in 1480, as an employee of Despars trading house, based in Bruges. This company was dedicated to business with sugar from Madeira. The farmer and trader Esmenaut or Esmeraldo, built a house that has become very […]
Intended to constitute itself as a memory identification space of sugar production and technology of Madeira, in its two most important cycles in the XV-XVI and XIX. The Museum The Sugar City makes known to visitors the cultural consequences of economic cycles. The Museum The Sugar City wants to establish itself as reserves in Funchal […]
The Photographia – Museu “Vicentes” is installed in the old “studio” of Vicente Gomes da Silva and has, among its collection, sets, cameras, furniture “studio”, frames with original photographs, books on photographic techniques and valuable photographic archive with about 800,000 negatives, datable between 1876 and 1982, as well as having a nucleus for the Cinema. […]
To preserve the heritage and the historical record of whaling in Madeira, to produce information and spread understanding of cetaceans and the marine environment through an environmentally responsible integrated policy, based on museology, education and scientific research, to contribute to bringing people closer to the sea. Address: Caminho da Pedra de Eira, 9200-031 Caniçal Phone: +351 291 […]
In this museum seeks to recreate the environment of Romanticism, a house of Madeira. It is intended above all to reference the introduction and importance of embroidery in island living from the nineteenth century. The presence of pieces of furniture of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, Hepplewhite, Sheraton, the end of the Victorian style of […]
The Quinta das Cruzes Museum consists of the former residence of Morgados das Cruzes, the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade and a beautiful garden, which includes the Orchid and the Archaeological Park (built from architectural elements from demolition of various buildings) . Quinta das Cruzes is associated will figure of João Gonçalves Zarco, since it […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Funchal has a vast collection of Portuguese contemporary art since the 60s until today, with the initial core the collection of the Fine Arts Prize of the City of Funchal, an initiative carried out in the years 1966 and 1967. This collection of principle was exposed temporarily in the […]
Installed in the Palace Promenade, once belonging to the Counts of Calçada, and leased from the 40s by Dr. Frederico de Freitas, known collector and art lover. Attorney and notary, this Madeira gathered a valuable legacy of works of art, which left the region after his death in 1978. In order to expose the collections […]
The museum consists of collections of paintings, sculpture, jewelery and vestments, chronologically between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The collections of the Museum stands out the Flemish painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which came to Madeira in the sixteenth century the so-called golden age of sugar production. The Flemish panels are distinguished not […]
