Rua de Alfredo Guimarães | 4800-407 Guimarães

Open: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Closed: Mondays; January 1st; Easter Sunday; May 1st; December 25th; June 24 (municipal holiday)

The Alberto Sampaio Museum is located in the historic center of Guimarães, where, in the 10th century, Countess Mumadona Dias ordered the construction of a monastery, which in the 12th century gave way to a Collegiate Church and in the 20th century received a Museum, created to house the artistic collection of the extinct Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Oliveira and other churches and convents in Guimarães.

Diverse, but coherent and homogeneous in quality, the collection includes sculpture, carving, painting, ceramics, textiles and goldsmithing.

A highlight is the 16th century painting section, with special emphasis on the fresco “Beheading of Saint John the Baptist”, the “Triptych of Lamentation” and the “Virgin of Milk between Saint Benedict and Saint Jerome”, all three attributed to the still little-known “Master of Guimarães”.

Of incalculable documentary and historical value, the Alberto Sampaio Museum also holds in its custody the loudel – military attire – that King João I wore in the Battle of Aljubarrota (1385) and which he offered to the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria da Oliveira. The same monarch also offered a magnificent gilded silver triptych representing the Nativity cycle, which today forms part of the Museum's exceptional collection of liturgical goldwork, with examples from the 12th to the 19th centuries.

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