Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Located in the Eduardo VII Park, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is created from the collections by Calouste Gulbenkian. The art patron and collector donated his private collection which consists of arts and antiquities ranging from 2000 BC to 20th century. Gulbenkian collected the art in the form of tapestry, ceramics, jewellery, glassware, paintings, sculpture and furniture. The permanent exhibition at the museum displays over thousand pieces of art (out of 6000 items in total) chronologically in simply designed spacious halls defined by two circuits. The highlights of the first circuit include Roman jewellery, 2300 years old gold Egyptian mummy mask , Persian tapestries, 2400 yrs old Greek Vase, Assyrian bas-reliefs, Chinese porcelain and Japanese paintings. The second circuit is dominated by the art and works of European masters including some of the paintings from the well known Flemish, Italian and French renaissance artists. Pallas Athena by Reuben, Portrait of an Old Man & Alexander the Great by Rembrandt, Portrait of Madame Claude Monet by Renoir are some of the masterpieces that will leave you speechless. For art aficionados visit to the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is a great way to admire a lifelong quest of an art patron who believed in collecting ‘Only the best’.