5/5 Maryam K. 2 years ago on Google
An
interesting
collection
of
the
works
of
the
contemporary
artist
Manuel
Cargaleiro,
including
ceramics
and
painting.
The
museum
is
constituted
of
two
buildings,
historic
and
contemporary.
In
the
historic
building
mainly
exhibits
the
ceramics,
divided
in
to
different
rooms
based
on
the
patterns.
Besides,
the
library
and
the
shop
are
also
in
this
building.
Meawhile,
the
contemporary
building
hosts
the
artist's
paintings,
contemporary
ceramics.
The
museum
is
open
Tuesday
to
Sunday
10AM–1PM,
2–6PM.
(The
historic
building
dates
back
to
the
18th
century
and
it
was
named
"Solar
dos
Cavaleiros".
This
building
was
a
place
to
shelter
lonely
women
with
rough
life
stories
and
also
for
unwanted
children.
There
is
the
remaining
of
a
window
at
the
reception
of
the
museum
where
in
the
past
the
parents
of
the
unwanted
child
used
to
leave
their
baby
and
a
person
from
inside
the
house
will
take
the
baby.
the
structure
of
that
window
was
designed
in
a
way
that
people
from
the
inside
would
not
see
the
person
who
left
the
baby,
to
protect
their
identity)
