Museu de Alberto Sampaio

Alberto Sampaio Museum is located in the Historic Centre of Guimarães, where, in the tenth century, the Mumadona Days countess had built a monastery. All around him was growing Guimarães town. In the twelfth century, the monastery gave way to a collegial, under the invocation of Santa Maria and, later, of Our Lady of Oliveira. The endowment of the Museum is diverse but coherent in its diversity and homogeneous quality. It has collections of sculpture, jewelery, paintings, carvings, pottery and textiles. They deserve special attention the medieval legacy and sixteenth century: the magnificent silver gilt triptych representing the cycle of the Nativity and was offering John I; the Romanesque cup of D. Sancho I; a Gothic chalice; the coffers-reliquary; trecentista the image of Santa Maria; the cross donated by Dr. John of the Rules; Manueline custody and the great processional cross of the sixteenth century. Some of the pieces on display are of local manufacture and witness the traditional importance of the goldsmiths of Guimarães.