Created in 1884 and housed in the Palácio Alvor for almost 130 years, the MNAA-Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga has had its current title for more than a century. It is the home to the most important Portuguese public collection of art, ranging from paintings to sculpture, and gold and silverware, as well as decorative arts from Europe, Africa and the Far East. Comprising over 40,000 items, the MNAA collection has the largest number of works from Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, classified by the State as “national treasures”. In its various sections, it also has a number of major works of art in the context of the world artistic heritage.

Virtual visits on Google Arts & Culture (with English contents)

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EIGHT CENTURIES OF STORIES TO TELL

MNAA | Between Past and Future
Thomas Germain Service by JOSÉ AVILLEZ (chef)

MNAA | Between Past and Future
Textiles collection by NUNO GAMA (fashion designer)

MNAA | Between Past and Future
European Painting collection by JOÃO ONOFRE (visual artist)

MNAA | Between Past and Future
Portuguese Painting collection by JOÃO QUEIROZ (painter)

MNAA | Between Past and Future
Portuguese Furniture collection by ÁLVARO SIZA VIEIRA (architect)

Al-zuleique is the Arabic word that became the Portuguese azulejo (tile) and referred to the “small, smooth stone” used by Muslims in the Middle Ages. Their use of tiles to decorate floors and walls pleased the Portuguese Kings and subsequently won pride of place in architecture from the 15th century. We could say that Portugal adopted them in an unparalleled way, like no other European country. So, travelling across the country is like visiting a living museum of tiles, but it is in the National Tile Museum in Lisbon that you can get to know, like nowhere else, their history and artistic and technical evolution, from early times to modern-day production.

One day at the National Musem of Azulejo (tour on the History of Azulejo)

The first regular radio broadcasts started in 1935 and television broadcasts in 1957, with 85 years of radio, 64 of television and 23 of online, RTP offers television, radio and a range of services online through our website (s) (s) and social networks, RTP is the oldest media company in Portugal. RTP has a rich and unparalleled museological, documentary and audiovisual heritage. The mission of the RTP Museum Center is to manage the museological and documental collection under its care through the Visitable Museological Collection of Radio and Television, Visitable Reserve, Virtual Museum, Historical Documentary Archive, Written Music Archive, Library and Documentation Center

As primeiras emissões regulares de rádio iniciaram-se em 1935 e as de televisão em 1957. Com 85 anos de Rádio, 64 de Televisão e 23 de online, um universo diversificado de marcas de televisão, rádio e online, através do(s) site(s) e redes sociais, a RTP é a empresa de media com mais história e tradição na comunicação social portuguesa. A RTP tem um riquíssimo e inigualável património museológico, documental e audiovisual (sons e imagens), que se confunde com a história de Portugal. O Núcleo Museológico da RTP tem como missão gerir o acervo museológico e documental à sua guarda, procedendo à manutenção e disponibilização interna e externa da Coleção Visitável Museológica de Rádio e Televisão, Reserva Visitável, Museu Virtual, Arquivo Histórico documental, Arquivo de Música Escrita, Biblioteca e Centro de Documentação.

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Since opening to the public in 1998, the Museum has incorporated items belonging to hundreds of interpreters, authors, composers, musicians, instrument manufacturers, scholars and researchers, professional and amateur artists: hundreds of personalities that witnessed and wrote the history of Fado, and that did not hesitate to cede the testimonial of their affective and memorial patrimony to us, for the construction of a collective project.

Concert Guitars for Amália

A Man in the City (Carlos do Carmo)

Museum of Fado

Sound Archive Museu do Fado

Casa do Cante is a project based in the city of Serpa, aimed at safeguarding the Cante Alentejano and the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the south. Casa do Cante is the managing body of the Candidature of Cante Alentejano to the list representing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, presented by the Portuguese State to UNESCO in 2013.

Cante is a genre of traditional two-part singing performed by amateur choral groups in southern Portugal, characterized by distinctive melodies, lyrics and vocal styles, and performed without instrumentation. Groups consist of up to thirty singers divided into groups. The ponto, in the lower range, starts the singing, followed by the alto, in the higher range, which duplicates the melody a third or a tenth above, often adding ornaments. The entire choral group then takes over, singing the remaining stanzas in parallel thirds.

Video Cante Alentejano's candidacy for the UNESCO List of Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Singers / Choral Groups

"Uma mãe que o filho embala", by Joaquim Galado, Serpa

"Cantar os Reis", pelo Rancho de Cantadores de Aldeia Nova de São Bento (de Tiago Pereira)

"Mondadeira Alentejana", pelo Grupo Coral Feminino As Ceifeiras de Pias (de Tiago Pereira)

"Grândola, Vila Morena", pelo Rancho de Cantadores de Paris (de Tiago Pereira)

"Alentejo, Alentejo", pelo Grupo Coral e Etnográfico da Casa do Povo de Serpa (de Nora Longatti)