Open: Tuesday to Sunday: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Paço dos Três Escalões, Adro da Sé · 3500-195 Viseu

The Grão Vasco National Museum was founded in 1916, with the aim of preserving and enhancing the historical, artistic and archaeological heritage of the Viseu region, especially the important paintings by Vasco Fernandes (c. 1475-1542), known as Grão Vasco. Between 2001 and 2004, the project by architect Eduardo Souto Moura renovated it and adapted it to the demands of a new museum program.
It is located in the historic center of Viseu, in the Paço dos Três Escalões, next to the Cathedral, housed in an imposing granite building, begun in 1593 and which maintains a unique relationship between sobriety and monumentality. During the 18th century, the second floor was built. In the 19th century, it passed from ecclesiastical property to public domain, housing, among other services, the Museum and its valuable collections.
The Grão Vasco National Museum exhibits, as its main collection, a remarkable set of altarpiece paintings from the first half of the 16th century, by Grão Vasco, collaborators and contemporaries. In addition to these works, mainly executed for the Cathedral of Viseu, there are others from churches in the region, as well as deposits from other museums. The Museum also exhibits collections of paintings, sculptures, goldsmithing, Portuguese faience, oriental porcelain, furniture and ivories, from Romanesque to Baroque, as well as objects and figurative supports originally intended for liturgical practices.

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