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 […]
