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Museu do Abade de Baçal

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Brief History Museum In 1915 it is created the Regional Museum of Art Works, Archaeological parts and Numismatic Bragança. In 1925 opens to the public under the direction of Baçal Abbot (Pe. Francisco Manuel Alves), which, from 1935, becomes his patron, fair homage to this eminent scholar transmontano which greatly contributes to the consolidation and enrichment of Museum collections in their direction.

The building The Abade de Bacal Museum is housed in the old building Episcopal Palace of Bragança, with the advent of the Republic, passes to the state supervision, the subject of successive reuses and refurbishments. In the 30 is the target of a background of intervention carried out by DGEMN, and in 1994, following the acquisition of the adjoining building that only remained the main elevation, the project of Arqs. António Portugal and Manuel Maria Reis finally gives the museum the possibility of building a museum program consistent and cohesive. Since 1986, the building is considered to be of public interest.

the collections The Museum's collection includes much of the booty from the Bishop's Palace, which stands the chapel itself. Even the sacred art collections, can be distinguished from a sixteenth-century storm rare, some baroque sculptures of unquestionable quality, the triptych of St. Ignatius Martyrdom the Annunciation and even the Ark of the Holy Oils. In this inaugural set to join in 1927, the collections of the Municipal Museum of Braganza. The initial background were added to the collections of the Abbot Baçal, including pieces of archeology, numismatics, epigraphy and ethnography, and the acquisition of Raul Teixeira, who succeeded to that in the direction of the Museum. Among these testimonies are intended to illustrate the history of the northeastern region stand out some of the gatherer and metallurgical societies that inhabited - stelae with varied decor, vases and ceramic fragments, arrowheads, halberds, axes, fibulae and other objects of the periods pre- and proto-historic. The Romanization of the museum influence zone is represented by various collections of funerary stelae, altars, árulas, milestones, farming tools, ceramics, decorative objects and numismatics. The Manueline charters, the sticks of town council and justice, the standard measures quinhentistas for liquids and solids are material evidence of the statement of administrative importance of Bragança region. The newly formed masks collection allows finally to realize of an important ritual complex and specific traditional festive cycle in the region. A substantial part of the Museum's collection also comes from important donations and private legacies, some natural District of Bragança, as is the case of Sa Vargas Legacy of which are from many parts of civil goldsmiths of secs. XVIII and XIX and a significant set of furniture which highlights a counter seventeenth century Indo-Portuguese. The works of painters such as Silva Porto, José Malhoa, Aurélia de Sousa and Veloso Salgado, among others, as well as drawings of Almada Negreiros, due to its incorporation into the Museum to the steps taken by Raul Teixeira as its Director.

Abbe Museum Baçal Street Abilio Beça, No. 27 5300 - 011 Bragança PT

Tel | 273331595 Fax | 273323242 Em @ il | [email protected] site | www.mabadebacal.com GPS Coordinates: 41.805920; -6.754150

Updated on 27 May 2024

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