Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea


Address:
R. Serpa Pinto 4, 1200-444 Lisboa, Portugal
Phone:
+351 21 343 2148
Schedule:
  • Tuesday: 10:00 - 18:00
  • Wednesday: 10:00 - 18:00
  • Thursday: 10:00 - 18:00
  • Friday: 10:00 - 18:00
  • Saturday: 10:00 - 18:00
  • Sunday: 10:00 - 18:00

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Also known as MNAC for short, or Museu do Chiado, it is located in the area of the São Francisco Convent, close to the Fine-Arts Academy. After the 1988 fire that affected Chiado, it underwent a renovation and reopened in 1994. It's collection of works ranges from 1850 to this day. It crosses the history of portuguese art since the Romanticism and Naturalism periods, with its landscapes and portraits, arriving to the XX century and it's avant-garde artists, with a great profusion of Modernist works, then gaining a political dimension in the 1940s, when experimentalism makes its appearence along with Surrealism and Abstraction. The 60s and 70s show a return to the avant-garde spirit, multiplying a variety of different ways to approach painting, sculpture, the eye, the object, the sign, conceptual and post-conceptual art, and in the 80s there is a return to painting, figurative caracteristics and expressionism. From the 90s onwards, there is a concern with authorship, deviance, politic, social and cultural discourses, in works that follow the latest of the portuguese artistic production. The museum also has a cosy cafeteria with esplanade and a small garden you can stop by.



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