José Malhoa Museum

Museu de José Malhoa, with a statue of the museum's namesake in the foreground

The Museu de José Malhoa (José Malhoa Museum), in Caldas da Rainha, is a regional Portuguese museum, that hosts the finest collection of the Portuguese naturalist painter José Malhoa. The museum building, the first purpose-built museum in Portugal, was constructed in 1940 and enlarged in 1950 and 1957.^[1] The museum's collection includes paintings, sculptures, medals, drawings and ceramics from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Localization

The museum is located in the city of Caldas da Rainha, Leiria, Portugal, in the middle of the D. Carlos I park [pt].

See also

List of single-artist museums

References

^ Museu de José Malhoa Archived 2006-12-13 at the Wayback Machine from the Instituto Português de Museus

External links

Media related to Museu de José Malhoa at Wikimedia Commons

José Malhoa Museum at Direção Geral de Cultura do Centro
Museu José Malhoa at patrimoniocultural.pt
Museu José Malhoa

39°24′03″N 9°08′02″W / 39.4008°N 9.1340°W / 39.4008; -9.1340

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