The Club held an interesting guided tour of the Lisbon Military Museum on 8th February. The collection of bronze artillery pieces is considered to be one of the most complete worldwide, both for its inscriptions and heraldic symbols, and for the ornamentation in the style of the respective casting periods. The 7 monumental paintings installedContinue reading “Guided tour to the Lisbon Military Museum”
Category Archives: Visits
Guided tour to Lázaro Leitão Aranha Noble House
On 20 January, the Club had a guided visit, with Dr. Madalena Fernandes, to the Lázaro Leitão Aranha Noble House. It was commissioned in 1734 by the principal of the Patriarchal Cathedral and lecturer at the University of Coimbra, Lázaro Leitão Aranha. In the atrium, a beautiful marble staircase and, on the walls, twelve figuresContinue reading “Guided tour to Lázaro Leitão Aranha Noble House”
Exhibition “D. Maria II – From Brazilian princess to queen of Portugal: 1819-1853”
The Club organised last 16th of July a guided tour to the exhibition hosted at the King D. Luís Gallery, at the Ajuda Palace. The exhibition reviews Queen Maria II’s two reigning decades (1834-1853) through art works, jewellery, objects and documents evoking the Queen’s biography, since her origins, upbringing, family life, her marriages, as wellContinue reading “Exhibition “D. Maria II – From Brazilian princess to queen of Portugal: 1819-1853””
Exhibition “All I want”
The past 25th of June, the Lisbon Club organised a guided tour to the exhibition “All I want” (hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), counting over 240 works of painting, sculpture, drawing, object, book, film and video, produced by 40 different Portuguese artists, from 1900 to 2020, including such names as Aurélia de Sousa, MariaContinue reading “Exhibition “All I want””
Tour of the Urban Art in Lisbon
Last 26th October, the Lisbon Club organised a tour through some burroughs in Lisbon to see several works of Urban Art that have been populating the city in recent years. Some of those areas included: Mouraria, Alfama, Graça, Santa Apolónia, Cais do Sodré and Santos. It’s noteworthy to point out the Wall of tiles byContinue reading “Tour of the Urban Art in Lisbon”
Visit to S. Jorge Castle
On June 3rd, the Club made a guided tour with a historian to the Castle of São Jorge, which proved to be very interesting. After the confinement period, this was the first event in the second quarter program. We share the group photo here.
Mechanical Music Museum
In October 2019 we had a guided tour to the Mechanical Music Museum in Arraiados (Pinhal Novo, Palmela). It’s a very interesting museum, with over 600 objects in display, among automatons, phonographs, bells, unusual music boxes, and gramophones, from the private collection of Luís Cangueiro. This museum surprised and wondered us all. Among the displayedContinue reading “Mechanical Music Museum”