Museum of Lisbon

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File:Cais das Colunas (34943381766) (cropped).jpg houses the Museu de Lisboa's location in the Lisbon Baixa.]]

The creation of a municipal museum for Lisbon was first proposed in 1909, by the republican members of the Lisbon Senate, then dominated by monarchists, but no action was taken.

In 1930, the city purchased the Palácio da Mitra, a former residence of the Patriarch of Lisbon, in order to outfit the palace to house a city museum. Following renovations to the palace, the Museu da Cidade (City Museum) opened in 1942, under the leadership of curator Mário Tavares Chicó.[http://www.museudelisboa.pt/sobre-nos.html Museu de Lisboa - Sobre Nos]

In 1962, the museum purchased Pimenta Palace to serve as its home, because of its more central location and larger facilities. However, the museum only inaugurated the new facilities at Pimenta Palace in 1979, after more than a decade of renovations.

In 2009, a new museological direction for the museum was formulated, along with a new public image plan, which resulted in the transformation of the Museu da Cidade (City Museum) to the Museu de Lisboa (Museum of Lisbon), in 2015. Similarly, the new museological direction decentralized the museum and led to the creation of multiple poles of the museum across the city.

The Museu de Lisboa currently has the following locations:[http://www.museudelisboa.pt/exposicoes.html Museu de Lisboa - Exposicoes]

• Pimenta Palace (the museum's core location)
• Casa dos Bicos in Alfama
• Santo António Church in Alfama
• Praça do Comércio in the Lisbon Baixa
• Roman Theatre of Lisbon
• Roman Galleries of Rua da Prata

The Museu de Lisboa has a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, maps, historical documents, and other objects d'art.

File:Vendedor d'água na Praça de D. Pedro em Lisboa (1877) - J. L. Palhares (Museu de Lisboa).png|Water vendor in Rossio Square, 1877.

File:Louis-Michel van Loo 003.jpg|Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal by Louis-Michel van Loo

File:Manuel_Pereira_de_Sampaio.png|Bust of Manuel Pereira de Sampaio by Filippo della Valle

File:Terreiro do Paço em 1662.jpg|Terreiro do Paço by Dirk Stoop

File:Teixeira Lopes Monumento a Eça de Queiroz 1903 IMG 9225.JPG|Monument to Eça de Queiroz

File:Casa dos Vinte e Quatro (Procissão do Corpus Christi na 1.ª metade do século XVIII - Diamantino Tojal).png|18th century Procession of the Corpus Christi figurines

File:A faustíssima e memoravel reunião dos illustrissimos membros da Junta Provisional - António Cândido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado, c. 1820, Museu de Lisboa.png|Arrival of the Regency to Lisbon by António Cândido Cordeiro Pinheiro Furtado

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• [http://www.museudelisboa.pt/en.html Official website]

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