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Attraction · Lisbon, Portugal
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The museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Avenidas Novas, holding the founder's private collection of ancient, Islamic, Asian and European art, alongside the CAM modern art centre and a large public garden.
For range and quality that no other museum in Portugal comes near, and for the Lalique jewellery, which is the finest collection of it anywhere.
Egyptian, Islamic, Chinese and European rooms all strong. The Lalique collection. A superb modernist building. A free garden. Late Saturday opening. Free entry to exhibitions on Sundays from 14:00.
Confusing ticket tiers. Closed Tuesdays. Away from the tourist centre. Eighteen euros is steep for the city.
Anyone who likes decorative arts, and anyone staying in Lisbon long enough to leave Baixa and Belem behind.
You have two days and have not yet seen Belem. The Jeronimos monastery has the stronger claim on a short trip.
Decide which ticket you want before you get to the desk. Saturday evening is the calmest slot. The garden is free, so it works as a break in the middle rather than a separate trip.
All inclusive 18.00 euros, museum and CAM 16.00 euros, CAM alone 12.00 euros, CAM temporary exhibitions 8.00 euros. Discounts of 25 per cent for under-30s and 10 per cent for over-65s. Free entry on Sundays from 14:00.
Metro to Sao Sebastiao or Praca de Espanha, both a few minutes' walk. It is about fifteen minutes by metro from Baixa.
Avenidas Novas, a twentieth-century residential and office district north of the centre, quiet and green and largely free of tourists.
Two to three hours for the founder's collection, longer with CAM and the garden.
Step-free throughout with lifts, and the garden paths are largely level.
The best museum in Portugal. Work out which ticket you want before you arrive, go late on a Saturday, and give the free garden half an hour of its own.
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum charges 18.00 euros for an all-inclusive ticket, 16.00 euros for the museum and CAM together, and 12.00 euros for CAM alone. It opens 10:00 to 18:00, until 21:00 on Saturdays, and is closed on Tuesdays. Gulbenkian was an Armenian oil magnate who took five per cent of Iraqi petroleum in kind and spent it on whatever he liked for fifty years. The result is one of the best private…
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